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EspoCRM CVE-2026-75505

| EUVDEUVD-2026-102111 MEDIUM
Missing Authorization (CWE-862)
2026-10-15 GitHub_M
6.0
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: GitHub_M
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate with mass-update permission
  2. Delivery
    Obtain valid attachment identifier
  3. Exploit
    Submit identifier to mass-update processor
  4. Execution
    Attachment duplicated without ACL read check
  5. Impact
    Read exposed file contents

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires an authenticated EspoCRM account (prior to version 10.0.2) that has been granted mass-update permission, plus possession of a valid attachment identifier for a file the attacker is not otherwise authorized to read. The vulnerable path is specifically the mass-update file-copy logic (copyFileField / copyAttachmentMultipleField in Tools/MassUpdate/Processor.php), which duplicated attachments without an ACL read check. The primary limiting factor, explicitly stated by the vendor, is the difficulty of obtaining a valid attachment ID (reflected as AC:H); additionally the mass-update permission is an elevated privilege not held by ordinary read-only users, so this is effectively an insider/privilege-boundary bypass rather than an unauthenticated remote exposure.

Impact

This is a medium-severity authorization (access-control) flaw, not a critical one. The vendor-provided CVSS 4.0 vector (6.0) shows AV:N but AC:H and PR:L, meaning that while the mass-update endpoint is reachable over the network, exploitation requires an already-authenticated account holding mass-update permission AND knowledge of a valid attachment identifier - the description itself notes 'obtaining a valid attachment identifier may be difficult,' which justifies the high attack complexity. Impact is confidentiality-only (VC:H, VI:N, VA:N): an attacker can read file contents they should not access, but cannot modify or deny service. No EPSS score was provided in the input and the CVE is NOT listed in CISA KEV, so there is no evidence of widespread or active exploitation; the 'publicly available' POC references actually point to the vendor security advisory, the patch commit, and the 10.0.2 release rather than a standalone weaponized exploit. No SSVC decision data was supplied. Net: a legitimate but lower-priority insider/privilege-boundary issue - prioritize patching for multi-tenant or least-privilege EspoCRM deployments, but it is not a mass-exploitation threat given the authentication requirement and the difficulty of guessing attachment IDs.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An authenticated EspoCRM user who holds mass-update permission but lacks read access to a sensitive attachment supplies that attachment's known identifier to the mass-update functionality; the processor duplicates the file into a record the attacker controls, bypassing record- and field-level ACLs and exposing the file contents. A patch commit and security advisory are publicly available, but no standalone weaponized exploit was identified, and the attacker must first obtain a valid attachment ID, which the vendor notes is difficult.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 15, 2026

EspoCRM installations prior to 10.0.2 allow an authenticated user holding the mass-update permission to duplicate an existing Attachment record by supplying its identifier, because the mass-update processor copied the file without performing an ACL read check - the resulting copy is then readable by the attacker, disclosing the file's contents. Impact is confidentiality-only (no integrity or availability effect) and exploitation is constrained: the attacker must already possess an elevated mass-update privilege and must know a valid attachment ID for a file they are not authorized to read, which the vendor acknowledges is difficult to obtain. Publicly available exploitation material exists in the form of the upstream advisory, the fix commit that pinpoints the vulnerable code path (Tools/MassUpdate/Processor.php), and the 10.0.2 release notes; there is no CISA KEV listing indicating confirmed active exploitation of this issue.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: upgrade to EspoCRM 10.0.2 or later, which introduces the missing $acl->checkEntityRead($attachment) check in copyFileField() and copyAttachmentMultipleField() and converts a failed check into a logged, per-record skip in Tools/MassUpdate/Processor.php; the upgrade is available from https://github.com/espocrm/espocrm/releases/tag/10.0.2 and the advisory GHSA-24pg-2q7q-m5p6 documents it. Where immediate upgrading is not possible, the most effective compensating control is to remove the mass-update permission from all roles except a small, trusted administrative group (Administration > Roles > uncheck Mass Update) - this directly removes the required PR:L precondition, at the cost of disabling bulk-edit workflows for the affected users, who can still edit records individually. Because exploitation additionally requires knowledge of a valid attachment identifier, tightening Attachment entity read permissions (restrict to specific teams rather than 'all users') reduces the blast radius of any leaked IDs, and short-lived attachment token/URL exposure through email templates or exported CSV/PDF output should be audited, since that is a likely source of the IDs an insider would need. Note that these are mitigations only: they do not fix the underlying missing authorization check, and the copy-side ACL semantics remain bypassable for anyone who still holds mass-update rights combined with a leaked ID.

Affected VersionsENISA

espocrm < 10.0.2

Affected Packages

euvd espocrm fix: 10.0.2

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The root cause is CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) inside EspoCRM's mass-update tooling. EspoCRM models uploaded files as Attachment records governed by its ACL layer, which normally enforces both record-level (entity/team ownership) and field-level read restrictions. The mass-update feature lets a permitted user set one or more field values across many entities at once; when a target field is of file or attachment-multiple type, the processor called copyFileField() / copyAttachmentMultipleField() in application/Espo/Tools/MassUpdate/Processor.php to duplicate the referenced Attachment. Before version 10.0.2 that copy routine never called the ACL service, so it cloned the source attachment - including its access metadata semantics as a new record owned/visible to the caller - without ever verifying $acl->checkEntityRead($attachment). The result is an authorization-context confusion: a copy operation is treated as an internal data transformation rather than a read of the source record, so the read restriction that would have blocked direct access to the original file is never evaluated. The published fix adds an explicit $this->acl->checkEntityRead($attachment) guard in both copy paths, throws a Forbidden exception when the check fails, and wraps the per-entity processing in a try/catch that logs 'Mass update forbidden' and skips the record rather than aborting the whole batch. The supplied vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N, VC:H with no VI/VA) aligns with a network-reachable, low-privilege, high-complexity read-only disclosure; the independent assessment concurs, scoring it CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

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Severity by source

Vendor (GitHub_M) PRIMARY 6.0 MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
vuln.today AI 5.3 MEDIUM

Network-reachable endpoint (AV:N) but requires a hard-to-obtain attachment ID (AC:H) and an authenticated mass-update privilege (PR:L); only file contents are exposed, so C:H with I:N/A:N.

3.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (GitHub_M).

CVSS VectorVendor: GitHub_M

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Vulnerable system: Confidentiality
High
Vulnerable system: Integrity
None
Vulnerable system: Availability
None
Subsequent system: Confidentiality
None
Subsequent system: Integrity
None
Subsequent system: Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Oct 15, 2026 - 16:02 EUVD
CVE Published
Oct 15, 2026 - 15:04 cve.org
MEDIUM 6.0

DescriptionCVE.org

EspoCRM is an open source customer relationship management application. Prior to 10.0.2, an authenticated user with mass-update permission can supply a known attachment identifier to the mass-update functionality. The mass-update processor duplicates the attachment without checking whether the caller can read it, bypassing record-level and field-level restrictions and exposing the file contents through the copied attachment. Obtaining a valid attachment identifier may be difficult. This issue is fixed in version 10.0.2.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 79% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche open-source CRM, limited enterprise deployment footprint
Exploit
POC
Public exploit code exists
Data Quality
6 sources
Confidence: High

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC Yes
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

50
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +30
PoC: +20
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

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