How severe is CVE-2026-23696?

CVE-2026-23696 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.9 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 13.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE-2026-23696: Windmill < 1.603.3 File Ownership Handling SQLi

Q: What is CVE-2026-23696?

Windmill CE and EE versions 1.276.0 through 1.603.2 contain an SQL injection vulnerability in the folder ownership management functionality that allows authenticated attackers to inject SQL through the owner parameter. An attacker can use the injection to read sensitive data such as the JWT signing secret and administrative user identifiers, forge an administrative token, and then execute arbitrary code via the workflow execution endpoints.

Description

Windmill CE and EE versions 1.276.0 through 1.603.2 contain an SQL injection vulnerability in the folder ownership management functionality that allows authenticated attackers to inject SQL through the owner parameter. An attacker can use the injection to read sensitive data such as the JWT signing secret and administrative user identifiers, forge an administrative token, and then execute arbitrary code via the workflow execution endpoints.

Severity

CVSS 4.0 · CNA9.4 CRITICAL

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

CVSS 3.1 · CNA9.9 CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationpoc

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Windmill Labs	Windmill CE (Community Edition)	1.276.0 to 1.603.2 1.603.3 (unaffected)
Windmill Labs	Windmill EE (Enterprise Edition)	1.276.0 to 1.603.2 1.603.3 (unaffected)

References

7 Links

Patches

https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/commit/942fb629210ebb287f48467d1535ffde3a3eeafe

Exploits & PoCs

Third-party advisories

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/windmill-file-ownership-handling-sqli-rce

Product pages

https://www.windmill.dev/

Release notes

Record Details

Published

2026-04-07

Last updated

2026-07-14

Assigner (CNA)

VulnCheck

Credited to

Valentin Lobstein (Chocapikk)

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