CVE-2025-64717
CriticalSummary
ZITADEL is an open source identity management platform. A vulnerability in the federation process allows auto-linking users from external identity providers to existing users even if the IdP is inactive or federation is disallowed. This stems from failure to enforce organization-specific security settings during authentication.
Risk Assessment
An unauthenticated attacker can log in using a disabled IdP and potentially take over an existing user account, leading to unauthorized access and data compromise.
Recommendation
Upgrade ZITADEL to version 2.71.19, 3.4.4, or 4.6.6 (or later) immediately to remediate the vulnerability.
Original NVD description (English source)
ZITADEL is an open source identity management platform. Starting in version 2.50.0 and prior to versions 2.71.19, 3.4.4, and 4.6.6, a vulnerability in ZITADEL's federation process allowed auto-linking users from external identity providers to existing users in ZITADEL even if the corresponding IdP was not active or if the organization did not allow federated authentication. This vulnerability stems from the platform's failure to correctly check or enforce an organization's specific security settings during the authentication flow. An Organization Administrator can explicitly disable an IdP or disallow federation, but this setting was not being honored during the auto-linking process. This allowed an unauthenticated attacker to initiate a login using an IdP that should have been disabled for that organization. The platform would incorrectly validate the login and, based on a matching criteria, link the attacker's external identity to an existing internal user account. This may result in