authentik invitation expiry is delayed by at least 5 minutes
authentik is an open-source Identity Provider. Prior to versions 2025.8.5 and 2025.10.2, in previous authentik versions, invitations were considered valid regardless if they are expired or not, thus relying on background tasks to clean up expired ones. In a normal scenario this can take up to 5 minutes because the cleanup of expired objects is scheduled to run every 5 minutes. However, with a large amount of tasks in the backlog, this might take longer. authentik versions 2025.8.5 and 2025.10.2 fix this issue. A workaround involves creating a policy that explicitly checks whether the invitation is still valid, and then bind it to the invitation stage on the invitation flow, and denying access if the invitation is not valid.
- Published
- Nov 19, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 15th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-613
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Action score
21
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 5.3
- CNA · GitHub_M
- 5.8
- 0.5 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
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We use this product, ask for helpAffected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| goauthentik | authentik | cpe:2.3:a:goauthentik:authentik |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- goauthentik authentik2025.8.0 and later · before 2025.8.5
- goauthentik authentik2025.10.0 and later · before 2025.10.2
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
goauthentik authentik
- < 2025.10.2, < 2025.8.5affected
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | goauthentik.io | before 0.0.0-20251119135424-6672e6aaa41e | 0.0.0-20251119135424-6672e6aaa41e |
| Go | goauthentik.io | all versions | — |
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Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Go:goauthentik.io | 0.0.0-20251119135424-6672e6aaa41e | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
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Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- low · data can be read
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- Low
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-613 · Insufficient Session ExpirationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
nvd-primary
Attack context
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Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
- github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/6672e6aaa41e0f2c9bfb1e4d8b51cf114969e830
- github.com/goauthentik/authentik/security/advisories/GHSA-ch7q-53v8-73pc
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.