CVE-2022-46172

mediumpriority · track · 26EPSS 0.005 · 46 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.55% (46th) EPSS

CVSS 6.4 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

authentik is an open-source Identity provider focused on flexibility and versatility. In versions prior to 2022.10.4, and 2022.11.4, any authenticated user can create an arbitrary number of accounts through the default flows. This would circumvent any policy in a situation where it is undesirable for users to create new accounts by themselves. This may also affect other applications as these 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. However password resets are likely to be enabled by most installations. This vulnerability pertains to the user context used in the default-user-settings-flow, /api/v3/flows/instances/default-user-settings-flow/execute/. This issue has been fixed in versions 2022.10.4 and 2022.11.4.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.4

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Lprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.1 · impact 2.7

v3.16.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Lsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Lsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 3.1 · impact 2.7

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-269USprimaryCWE-287USprimary

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

goauthentik authentik2022.10.0, → 2022.10.4enisa_euvdEU
goauthentik authentik2022.11.0, → 2022.11.4enisa_euvdEU
goauthentik authentik2022.10.0 → 2022.10.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:goauthentik:authentik:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
goauthentik authentik2022.11.0 → 2022.11.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:goauthentik:authentik:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami authentik2022.10.0 → 2022.10.4osvUSpkg:bitnami/authentik
Bitnami authentik2022.11.0 → 2022.11.4osvUSpkg:bitnami/authentik

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

BIT-authentik-2022-46172authentik allows existing authenticated users to create arbitrary accounts2026-04-16vendor · osvUS
authentik is an open-source Identity provider focused on flexibility and versatility. In versions prior to 2022.10.4, and 2022.11.4, any authenticated user can create an arbitrary number of accounts through the default flows. This would circumvent any policy in a situation where it is undesirable for users to create new accounts by themselves. This may also affect other applications as these 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. However password resets are likely to be enabled by most installations. This vulnerability pertains to the user context used in the default-user-settings-flow, /api/v3/flows/instances/default-user-settings-flow/execute/. This issue has been fixed in versions 2022.10.4 and 2022.11.4.

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-12-28modified 2026-06-17

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references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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