Security Advisory 2026-19
| Summary | Authentication Cookie Forgery Leading to Privilege Escalation |
| Advisory Number | 2026-19 |
| Discovery Date | 04 SEP 2026 |
| Patch Release Date | 29 SEP 2026 |
| Advisory Release Date | 09 NOV 2026 |
| Product | Octopus Server |
| Operating System | Linux and Microsoft Windows |
| Severity | High |
| CVE ID | CVE-2026-96414 |
Customers who have downloaded and installed any of the Octopus Server versions listed below ("Details") are affected.
Please upgrade your Octopus Server immediately to fix this vulnerability.
Customers who have upgraded Octopus Server to version 2026.3.15875 or higher are not affected.
Severity
Octopus Deploy has given this vulnerability a High rating. This rating was given according to the Octopus Deploy severity levels, which ranks vulnerabilities as critical, high, medium, or low severity.
This is our assessment and you should evaluate its applicability to your own environment.
Details
In affected versions of Octopus Server, insufficient integrity protection of authentication cookies, combined with incorrect validation of permissions assigned to a user that allowed them to view users or audit events, could result in the user escalating their privileges to those of an Administrator.
Where guest access is enabled, this could be exploited as the guest user which would increase the severity to Critical.
The versions of Octopus Server affected by this vulnerability are:
- All 2022.x versions AFTER 2022.1.3143
- All 2023.x 2024.x and 2025.x versions
- All 2026.x versions before 2026.2.13487
- All 2026.3 versions before 2026.3.15875
Octopus Cloud customers do not need to take any further action as all instances have been updated to the patched version.
Fix
To address this vulnerability, we have released Octopus Server version:
- 2026.2.13487
- 2026.3.15875
The latest versions of Octopus Deploy products can be downloaded from https://octopus.com/downloads and previous versions can be downloaded from https://octopus.com/downloads/previous
What You Need to Do
Octopus Deploy recommends that you upgrade to the latest version (2026.3.16030). You can download the latest version of Octopus Server from https://octopus.com/downloads
If you can't upgrade to the latest version (2026.3.16030):
| If you have feature version... | ...then upgrade to this version |
|---|---|
| 2022.x 2023.x 2024.x, 2025.x | 2026.2.13487 or greater |
| 2026.1.x | 2026.2.13487 or greater |
| 2026.2.x | 2026.2.13487 or greater |
| 2026.3.x | 2026.3.15875 or greater |
Mitigation
There is no known mitigation for CVE-2026-96414, it is important to upgrade to a fixed version as soon as possible.
Support
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this advisory, please contact our support team https://octopus.com/support.
Exploitation and Public Announcements
The Octopus Deploy security team is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.
Source
This vulnerability was found during internal testing by Nathan Willoughby at Octopus Deploy