{"id":"CVE-2024-47070","aliases":["BIT-authentik-2024-47070","EUVD-2024-42259","GHSA-7jxf-mmg9-9hg7"],"status":"published","title":"authentik vulnerable to password authentication bypass via X-Forwarded-For HTTP header","description":"authentik is an open-source identity provider. A vulnerability that exists in versions prior to 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 allows bypassing password login by adding X-Forwarded-For header with an unparsable IP address, e.g. `a`. This results in a possibility of logging into any account with a known login or email address. The vulnerability requires the authentik instance to trust X-Forwarded-For header provided by the attacker, thus it is not reproducible from external hosts on a properly configured environment.  The issue occurs due to the password stage having a policy bound to it, which skips the password stage if the Identification stage is setup to also contain a password stage. Due to the invalid X-Forwarded-For header, which does not get validated to be an IP Address early enough, the exception happens later and the policy fails. The default blueprint doesn't correctly set `failure_result` to `True` on the policy binding meaning that due to this exception the policy returns false and the password stage is skipped. Versions 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 fix this issue.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00563,"percentile":0.47279,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-287"],"published":"2024-09-27T15:18:03Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:14Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","package":"authentik","fixed_in":["2024.6.5","2024.8.3"],"sources":["osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Bitnami","package":"authentik","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2024.6.5"},{"introduced":"2024.8.0"},{"fixed":"2024.8.3"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"goauthentik","product":"authentik"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/security/advisories/GHSA-7jxf-mmg9-9hg7","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","Vendor Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/78f7b04d5a62b2a9d4316282a713c2c7857dbe29","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/dd8f809161e738b25765797eb2a5c77a7d3fc2cf","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47070","tags":["web","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/47xxx/CVE-2024-47070.json","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2024-47070","title":"authentik vulnerable to password authentication bypass via X-Forwarded-For HTTP header","description":"authentik is an open-source identity provider. A vulnerability that exists in versions prior to 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 allows bypassing password login by adding X-Forwarded-For header with an unparsable IP address, e.g. `a`. This results in a possibility of logging into any account with a known login or email address. The vulnerability requires the authentik instance to trust X-Forwarded-For header provided by the attacker, thus it is not reproducible from external hosts on a properly configured environment.  The issue occurs due to the password stage having a policy bound to it, which skips the password stage if the Identification stage is setup to also contain a password stage. Due to the invalid X-Forwarded-For header, which does not get validated to be an IP Address early enough, the exception happens later and the policy fails. The default blueprint doesn't correctly set `failure_result` to `True` on the policy binding meaning that due to this exception the policy returns false and the password stage is skipped. Versions 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 fix this issue.","status":"published","published":"2024-09-27T15:18:03.999Z","modified":"2024-09-27T17:55:55.382Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-287"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:33:57.302325Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2024-42259","description":"authentik is an open-source identity provider. A vulnerability that exists in versions prior to 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 allows bypassing password login by adding X-Forwarded-For header with an unparsable IP address, e.g. `a`. This results in a possibility of logging into any account with a known login or email address. The vulnerability requires the authentik instance to trust X-Forwarded-For header provided by the attacker, thus it is not reproducible from external hosts on a properly configured environment.  The issue occurs due to the password stage having a policy bound to it, which skips the password stage if the Identification stage is setup to also contain a password stage. Due to the invalid X-Forwarded-For header, which does not get validated to be an IP Address early enough, the exception happens later and the policy fails. The default blueprint doesn't correctly set `failure_result` to `True` on the policy binding meaning that due to this exception the policy returns false and the password stage is skipped. Versions 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 fix this issue.","status":"published","published":"2024-09-27T15:18:03Z","modified":"2024-09-27T17:55:55Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-03T00:28:05.828156Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2024-47070","description":"authentik is an open-source identity provider. A vulnerability that exists in versions prior to 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 allows bypassing password login by adding X-Forwarded-For header with an unparsable IP address, e.g. `a`. This results in a possibility of logging into any account with a known login or email address. The vulnerability requires the authentik instance to trust X-Forwarded-For header provided by the attacker, thus it is not reproducible from external hosts on a properly configured environment.  The issue occurs due to the password stage having a policy bound to it, which skips the password stage if the Identification stage is setup to also contain a password stage. Due to the invalid X-Forwarded-For header, which does not get validated to be an IP Address early enough, the exception happens later and the policy fails. The default blueprint doesn't correctly set `failure_result` to `True` on the policy binding meaning that due to this exception the policy returns false and the password stage is skipped. Versions 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 fix this issue.","status":"published","published":"2024-09-27T16:15:05.413Z","modified":"2026-06-17T07:56:29.453Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-287"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:10:29.044588Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2024-47070","title":"authentik vulnerable to password authentication bypass via X-Forwarded-For HTTP header","description":"authentik is an open-source identity provider. A vulnerability that exists in versions prior to 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 allows bypassing password login by adding X-Forwarded-For header with an unparsable IP address, e.g. `a`. This results in a possibility of logging into any account with a known login or email address. The vulnerability requires the authentik instance to trust X-Forwarded-For header provided by the attacker, thus it is not reproducible from external hosts on a properly configured environment.  The issue occurs due to the password stage having a policy bound to it, which skips the password stage if the Identification stage is setup to also contain a password stage. Due to the invalid X-Forwarded-For header, which does not get validated to be an IP Address early enough, the exception happens later and the policy fails. The default blueprint doesn't correctly set `failure_result` to `True` on the policy binding meaning that due to this exception the policy returns false and the password stage is skipped. Versions 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 fix this issue.","status":"published","published":"2024-09-27T15:18:03.999Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:14.916516058Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical"}],"cwes":["CWE-287"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:43.253252Z"},{"id":"BIT-authentik-2024-47070","title":"authentik vulnerable to password authentication bypass via X-Forwarded-For HTTP header","description":"authentik is an open-source identity provider. A vulnerability that exists in versions prior to 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 allows bypassing password login by adding X-Forwarded-For header with an unparsable IP address, e.g. `a`. This results in a possibility of logging into any account with a known login or email address. The vulnerability requires the authentik instance to trust X-Forwarded-For header provided by the attacker, thus it is not reproducible from external hosts on a properly configured environment.  The issue occurs due to the password stage having a policy bound to it, which skips the password stage if the Identification stage is setup to also contain a password stage. Due to the invalid X-Forwarded-For header, which does not get validated to be an IP Address early enough, the exception happens later and the policy fails. The default blueprint doesn't correctly set `failure_result` to `True` on the policy binding meaning that due to this exception the policy returns false and the password stage is skipped. Versions 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 fix this issue.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-16T23:36:17.967Z","modified":"2026-09-08T08:45:50.109801155Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:28:28.70813Z"}]}}