PT-2022-27786 · Authentik · Authentik

Dreamingraven · Published 2022-12-28 · Updated 2026-04-16 · CVE-2022-46172

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions authentik versions prior to 2022.10.4 authentik versions prior to 2022.11.4

Description The issue allows any authenticated user to create an arbitrary number of accounts through the default flows, which can circumvent policies where it is undesirable for users to create new accounts by themselves. This may affect other applications as the 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, but password resets are likely to be enabled by most installations. The issue pertains to the user context used in the default-user-settings-flow, /api/v3/flows/instances/default-user-settings-flow/execute/.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2022.10.4, update to version 2022.10.4 or later. For versions prior to 2022.11.4, update to version 2022.11.4 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Improper Privilege Management

Improper Authentication

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

CWE-287

Related Identifiers

BIT-AUTHENTIK-2022-46172

CVE-2022-46172

GHSA-HV8R-6W7P-MPC5

Affected Products

Authentik

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/security/advisories/GHSA-hv8r-6w7p-mpc5 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/46xxx/CVE-2022-46172.json · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-46172 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-authentik-2022-46172 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-46172 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/41415 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/55464 · Telegram Post