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TI-2026-68332 Aliases CVE-2026-105688

Privilege escalation to owner in Penpot team invitations

Priority HIGH 65CWE-269Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Privilege escalation
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269.

Summary

Penpot before 2.18.0 lets a non-owner team administrator assign the owner role through team invitations, because the invitation path skips the role-ceiling check used when changing member roles (CWE-269). An authenticated team administrator can invite other accounts as owners and then use them to gain owner-only control over the team.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29

Description from the CNA

Penpot is an open-source design and prototyping platform. Prior to 2.18.0, create-team-invitations and the invitation acceptance path allow a non-owner team administrator to assign the owner role because invitation roles are persisted and applied without the role-ceiling check used by update-team-member-role. An administrator can invite another account as an owner, create multiple owners, and then use the new owner account to obtain owner-only control over the team. This issue is fixed in version 2.18.0.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00332 26th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed penpot (penpot): 2.18.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
penpotpenpotbefore 2.18.02.18.0Patch availableCNA
  • penpot Vendorpenpot Affected before 2.18.0 Fixed in 2.18.0 Patch available CNA

Remediation

Penpot version 2.18.0 fixes this issue. Upgrade Penpot to version 2.18.0 or later.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29

  • Fix · CNA penpot (penpot) Fixed in 2.18.0

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-06 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-105688
  2. 2026-10-06 CISA SSVC decision points changed
  3. 2026-10-06 Priority changed: MEDIUM → HIGH

References

Other 3

  • TI-2026-68335 OS command injection in Penpot SVG exporter via fill color CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
  • TI-2026-32845 Penpot: Pre-authenticated account takeover via team-invitation token + prepare-register-profile CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
  • TI-2026-35172 Penpot: Stored XSS via comment content, innerHTML renders unsanitized HTML CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-33540 Penpot: MCP REPL server binds to 0.0.0.0 with unauthenticated /execute endpoint — RCE CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2026-14441 Missing authorization in Penpot CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2026-33541 Penpot: Authenticated SSRF in remote image import via create-file-media-object-from-url CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.7
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Sources

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