authentik's invitation expiry is delayed by at least 5 minutes

Description

Summary

In previous authentik versions, invitations were considered valid regardless if they are expired or not, thus relying on background tasks to clean up expired ones. In a normal scenario this can take up to 5 minutes because the cleanup of expired objects is scheduled to run every 5 minutes. However, with a large amount of tasks in the backlog, this might take longer.

Patches

authentik 2025.8.5 and 2025.10.2 fix this issue; for other versions the workaround below can be used.

Workarounds

Users can create a policy that explicitly checks whether the invitation is still valid, and then bind it to the invitation stage on your invitation flow, and deny access if the invitation is not valid.

return not context['flow_plan'].context['invitation'].is_expired

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Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
medium
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Published (advisory)
2025-11-19 18:47:07 UTC
Updated
2025-11-19 18:47:09 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2025-11-19 18:47:07 UTC
NVD published
2025-11-19

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.04% 12.05%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
5.8 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.

Identifiers

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-613 Insufficient Session Expiration

Credits

  • melizeche (reporter)

Affected packages (1)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
go goauthentik.io < 0.0.0-20251119135424-6672e6aaa41e 0.0.0-20251119135424-6672e6aaa41e

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence