Vulnerability · Published Oct 5, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2026-105688Penpot: Team admin can escalate to owner via team invitation (missing owner-role guard on the invitation path)

Medium 6.7

In plain English

A medium-severity privilege mismanagement in penpot from penpot. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 27% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.7Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 73.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
penpot	penpot	< 2.18.0

Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

References

https://github.com/penpot/penpot/security/advisories/GHSA-mx4v-cmxq-644v x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/penpot/penpot/commit/5efd9cc3c5689485322f57b644b83a3bd2e33cee x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/penpot/penpot/releases/tag/2.18.0 x_refsource_MISC