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Description

OpenZiti through 2.0.0, fixed in commit 3027fdf, contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated non-admin identities with fine-grained enrollment management permissions to create enrollments for any identity, including the default administrator, because the ApplyCreate function in controller/model/enrollment_manager.go verifies only that the target identity exists without performing authorization checks binding the caller to the target identity. Attackers can redeem the resulting one-time token through the unauthenticated client API enrollment endpoint to obtain a client certificate authenticating as the targeted admin identity, yielding full administrative control of the controller and the zero-trust overlay it manages.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-06-29 | Published 2026-06-30 | Updated 2026-07-14 | Assigner VulnCheck




HIGH: 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

HIGH: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version
affected

3027fdffd3e57884487b7c46e5e669cfbc8becdf (git)
unaffected

Credits

George Chen finder

References

github.com/openziti/ziti/issues/4010 (Researcher Disclosure) technical-description exploit

github.com/openziti/ziti/pull/4013 (Pull Request) issue-tracking

github.com/...ommit/3027fdffd3e57884487b7c46e5e669cfbc8becdf (Fix Commit) patch

www.vulncheck.com/...in-via-unauthorized-enrollment-creation third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2026-58165)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-58165)

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