CVE-2026-58165 OpenZiti - Privilege Escalation to Admin via Unauthorized Enrollment Creation
Authenticated non-admin users can create admin enrollments to gain full administrative control of the OpenZiti controller.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-58165?
CVE-2026-58165 is a high-severity vulnerability in openziti ziti, published on 30 Jun 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-58165?
How do I fix CVE-2026-58165?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-58165 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-58165 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-58165 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c883-vc4m-3vc9.