Critical n8n Flaw (CVSS 9.9): Another Glorious Clusterfuck in Automation Land

Well, what a goddamn surprise — another so-called “automation platform” faceplants into a steaming pile of its own incompetence. This week’s star of the “Oh shit, patch your crap NOW” show is n8n, the low-code automation toy people use when they can’t be arsed to write an actual script. Turns out, there’s a *critical* security hole that lets any random bastard on the internet run arbitrary code. That’s right — your precious automations can suddenly become someone else’s botnet playground. How absolutely fucking adorable.

The flaw, with a lovely CVSS score of 9.9 (because of course it is almost maxed out), basically means that if you were daft enough to expose your n8n instance to the public internet — congratulations, you’ve just handed over the keys to your entire operation. Remote code