CVE-2022-46172
A public proof of concept exists; no exploitation attested.
- Published2022-12-28
- Fixed in2022.11.4 · 2022.10.4
- WeaknessCWE-269 · CWE-287
Am I affected?
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Description
authentik is an open-source Identity provider focused on flexibility and versatility. In versions prior to 2022.10.4, and 2022.11.4, any authenticated user can create an arbitrary number of accounts through the default flows. This would circumvent any policy in a situation where it is undesirable for users to create new accounts by themselves. This may also affect other applications as these new basic accounts would exist throughout the SSO infrastructure. By default the newly created accounts cannot be logged into as no password reset exists by default. However password resets are likely to be enabled by most installations. This vulnerability pertains to the user context used in the default-user-settings-flow, /api/v3/flows/instances/default-user-settings-flow/execute/. This issue has been fixed in versions 2022.10.4 and 2022.11.4.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2022-12-2807:15CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 21:37 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2022-46172?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2022-46172?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD · OSV| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022.11 | ≥ 2022.11.0, < 2022.11.4 | 2022.11.4 | NVD · OSV |
| 2022.10 | ≥ 2022.10.0, < 2022.10.4 | 2022.10.4 | NVD · OSV |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
- Update Goauthentik authentik to 2022.11.4 · 2022.10.4
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
- Published
- 2022-12-28
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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