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CVE-2026-55669 is a low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 0.0. No known exploits currently, and patches are available.
Very low probability of exploitation
EPSS predicts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days based on real-world threat data, complementing CVSS severity scores with actual risk assessment.
An authentication bypass vulnerability was discovered in ZITADEL's external JWT Identity Provider (IdP) implementation.
When validating JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) from an external provider, ZITADEL properly checks the token's cryptographic signature and issuer (iss), but it fails to validate the audience (aud) claim.
As a result, any validly signed token from the trusted issuer will be accepted. An attacker who is a legitimate user of a completely separate service sharing the same enterprise Identity Provider can intercept or present their token for that service to ZITADEL, successfully authenticating as that user without authorization.
In a controlled enterprise environment where Identity Providers are explicitly managed, the operational risk is localized. Exploitation requires that an attacker already possesses a valid standard user session token from a shared, trusted issuer intended for an entirely different relying party, limiting the vector to specific, rare cross-service setups where trust boundaries overlap.
Systems running one of the following versions are affected:
4.0.0 through 4.11.0 (including RC versions)3.0.0 through 3.4.11 (including RC versions)The vulnerability has been addressed in the latest releases, where a required audience can be set in the IdP configuration. Once provided, audience validation will be enforced.
The recommended solution is to update ZITADEL to a patched version.
If an immediate upgrade is not possible, you can mitigate the risk at the infrastructure layer:
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aud field does not strictly match ZITADEL's deployment target.If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please email us at [email protected]
Thanks to Android-Login-Analysis, Jason Zhou and Pedro Giglioti for reporting this vulnerability.