Critical Ni8mare RCE in n8n threatens 100,000 servers
⚠️ Security researchers at Cyera disclosed a critical vulnerability dubbed Ni8mare in the workflow automation platform n8n, enabling remote code execution and potential full environment compromise. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-21858, carries a CVSS score of 10.0 and impacts roughly 100,000 servers. The root cause is a Content-Type confusion in webhook processing that lets attackers overwrite internal variables, read arbitrary files and inject malicious payloads. n8n released a patched build (1.121.0); administrators should upgrade immediately and rotate any exposed credentials and tokens.
