IceHRM before 36.0.0 Broken Access Control via Employee ID
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-639.
Summary
IceHRM before 36.0.0 fails to validate employee ownership on seven REST sub-resource endpoints, allowing authenticated employees to read any colleague's HR records. Attackers can substitute arbitrary employee IDs in skill, education, certification, language, leave, attendance, and status endpoints to access sensitive personnel data.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA icehrm (gamonoid) Fixed in 36.0.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-91770
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hf65-v49c-m7f4
References
Sources
- CVE-2026-91770 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-91770 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-hf65-v49c-m7f4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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