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[GHSA] GHSA-679f-58pq-4v2c (medium) — n8n: Prototype Pollution via Workflow Structure Summary Can Lead to Denial of Service

medgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-09-10

GHSA-679f-58pq-4v2c Severity: medium CVE: CVE-2026-86078

n8n: Prototype Pollution via Workflow Structure Summary Can Lead to Denial of Service

## Impact

The Instance AI workflow summary built its result with get-or-create-then-nested-write idioms keyed by node names and connection keys taken from the stored workflow. Those are arbitrary strings: the restricted-name guard n8n shows in the editor

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-679f-58pq-4v2c