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.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2024-47070 is rated Moderate Risk (50.8/100): CVSS Critical severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.55%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.19% | 0.55% | +0.36% |
| 2 | 2026-05-22 | 0.14% | 0.19% | +0.05% |
| 3 | 2026-03-19 | — | 0.14% | — |
Full EPSS history (21 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.0 | 3.1 | CRITICAL |
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2.2 | 6.0 | [email protected] |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| goauthentik | authentik | < 2024.6.5 | cpe:2.3:a:goauthentik:authentik:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| goauthentik | authentik | >= 2024.8.0, < 2024.8.3 | cpe:2.3:a:goauthentik:authentik:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |