In a revelation that’s sure to make your IT department’s day, a new vulnerability has been discovered in n8n. This open-source workflow automation platform, which you probably installed after watching one too many productivity hacks on YouTube, is now offering authenticated users—because who doesn’t love a good plot twist—the ability to execute commands on your system with all the subtlety of a bull in a china shop.

Dubbed CVE-2025-68668, or as we like to call it, ‘The Great Protection Mechanism Fail,’ this flaw has a CVSS rating of 9.9. That’s just 0.1 shy of a perfect ten, which incidentally is the same score you need to impress your in-laws. Of course, we all know that 9.9 is the new 10 when it comes to disaster ratings, so props to n8n for setting new industry standards.

The affected versions include basically all of them since the dawn of time, so anyone who’s been loyal to this platform should now enjoy the unique thrill of an existential crisis. It’s like a mid-life crisis, but for software. Trust no one, but especially not your automation tools!