PT-2026-53916 · Openziti · Openziti

George Chen · Published 2026-06-30 · Updated 2026-06-30 · CVE-2026-58165

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenZiti versions prior to 2.0.1

Description A privilege escalation flaw exists in the controller enrollment management path. An authenticated non-admin identity with fine-grained enrollment management permissions can create enrollments for any identity, including the default administrator. This occurs because the ApplyCreate() function in controller/model/enrollment manager.go verifies that the target identity exists but fails to perform authorization checks to bind the caller to that target identity. An attacker can then redeem the resulting one-time token through the unauthenticated client API enrollment endpoint to obtain a client certificate for the targeted admin identity, resulting in full administrative control of the controller and the managed zero-trust overlay.

Recommendations Update to the version containing commit 3027fdf.

Exploit

Fix

LPE

Missing Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-862

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-58165

Affected Products

Openziti

References · 6

• 🔥 https://github.com/openziti/ziti/issues/4010 · Exploit
• https://github.com/openziti/ziti/commit/3027fdffd3e57884487b7c46e5e669cfbc8becdf · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58165 · Security Note
• https://github.com/openziti/ziti/pull/4013 · Note
• https://vulncheck.com/advisories/openziti-privilege-escalation-to-admin-via-unauthorized-enrollment-creation · Note
• https://twitter.com/UpwindMDR/status/2072016162641084609 · Twitter Post