Medium severity · published Mar 20, 2026
CVE-2026-33132
ZITADEL is missing enforcement of organization scopes
5.3
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
ZITADEL is an open source identity management platform. Versions prior to 3.4.9 and 4.0.0 through 4.12.2 allowed users to bypass organization enforcement during authentication. Zitadel allows applications to enforce an organzation context during authentication using scopes (urn:zitadel:iam:org:id:{id} and urn:zitadel:iam:org:domain:primary:{domainname}). If enforced, a user needs to be part of the required organization to sign in. While this was properly enforced for OAuth2/OIDC authorization requests in login V1, corresponding controls were missing for device authorization requests and all login V2 and OIDC API V2 endpoints.
This allowed users to bypass the restriction and sign in with users from other organizations. Note that this enforcement allows for an additional check during authentication and applications relying on authorizations / roles assignments are not affected by this bypass. This issue has been patched in versions 3.4.9 and 4.12.3.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 24% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ZI
zitadel · zitadel
>= 4.0.0-rc.1, < 4.12.3; >= 3.0.0-rc.1, < 3.4.9; < 1.80.0-v2.20.0.20260317120401-d90285929ca0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33132
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-33132
Patch
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/commit/d90285929ca019fa817f31551fd0883429dda2a8
Release Notes
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v3.4.9
Release Notes
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v4.12.3
Patch
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/security/advisories/GHSA-g2pf-ww5m-2r9m
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