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Frappe HRMS EUVDEUVD-2026-103173

| CVE-2026-64862 MEDIUM
Missing Authorization (CWE-862)
2026-10-16 GitHub_M
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: GitHub_M
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Attack ChainAIDerived

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

  1. Access
    Authenticate as low-privilege employee
  2. Exploit
    Alter employee identifier in PWA API request
  3. Execution
    Bypass missing authorization check
  4. Impact
    Read another employee's sensitive HR records

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

Requires a valid authenticated session on the Frappe HRMS instance (any employee-level account suffices, PR:L) and that the deployment exposes the PWA (progressive web app) employee-data API endpoints that relied on the unprivileged frappe.get_all query. The attacker manipulates the employee identifier in those PWA API requests to retrieve another employee's records. Limiting factors that reduce real-world risk: exploitation is read-only (confidentiality impact only, no integrity/availability effect), it needs authentication so it is not exploitable by anonymous external attackers, and only instances running versions prior to 15.58.3 (15.x) or 16.4.3 (16.x) with the PWA in use are affected.

Impact

This is a broken-object-level-authorization (IDOR) flaw in Frappe HRMS PWA API endpoints, rated CVSS 6.5 (medium) with vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N. The signals are internally consistent: network-reachable (AV:N) and low-complexity (AC:L), but exploitation requires an authenticated account (PR:L), and impact is confidentiality-only (C:H, I:N, A:N) - matching the description, which states 'an authenticated user' reads other employees' records. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC were provided in the input, so there is no signal of active or widespread exploitation; status is best described as no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The real-world risk is therefore an insider/horizontal-access threat rather than an external pre-auth breach: any user who can log into the HRMS (potentially every employee) could read colleagues' sensitive HR data. This is a legitimate privacy/compliance priority for organizations running many PWA users, but it is not an internet-facing unauthenticated emergency. The vendor fix is corroborated by source evidence (the commit swaps the permission-ignoring frappe.get_all for the permission-aware frappe.get_list), which strongly confirms the root cause is a missing authorization enforcement rather than an authentication bypass.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A low-privilege authenticated employee logged into the Frappe HRMS progressive web app calls the employee-data PWA API endpoints and substitutes another employee's identifier in the request. Because the endpoints used frappe.get_all (which bypasses user permission checks), the server returns records belonging to the other employee, exposing sensitive HR data. No public exploit code was identified in the provided data; exploitation is simple API parameter manipulation requiring a valid session.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 16, 2026

Authenticated users of Frappe HRMS (Frappe HR) can read sensitive HR records belonging to other employees because the product's PWA employee-data API endpoints fail to enforce object-level authorization prior to versions 15.58.3 (15.x branch) and 16.4.3 (16.x branch). Rated CVSS 6.5 (medium) with vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, the flaw is a read-only confidentiality breach: no integrity or availability impact, and it requires a valid employee-level session, so anonymous external attackers cannot exploit it. Exploitation only works where the deployment exposes the affected PWA endpoints; no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and there is no CISA KEV confirmation of active exploitation. Vendor-released patch: 15.58.3 and 16.4.3.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to Frappe HRMS 15.58.3 (15.x branch) or 16.4.3 (16.x branch); these are the vendor-released fixed versions, and the two upstream commits (6214ec8db13c587e05150bdf3e4e9e5d28b7fd94 and eefb8f4552d0e1e09ee4abae4fdc76fc5473e00a) show the change from frappe.get_all to the permission-aware frappe.get_list. Details are in advisory GHSA-wfc6-cw72-cvhx. If an immediate upgrade is not possible, treat the exposure as a data-confidentiality problem that only an authenticated insider or compromised low-privilege account can trigger: restrict network access to the HRMS PWA endpoints (for example via reverse-proxy rules or IP allowlisting) so only trusted networks can reach them, with the trade-off that off-site or mobile PWA users lose functionality; or disable/remove the PWA app from the deployment until patched, which removes the attack surface but disables the PWA user experience for all staff. Because exploitation is read-only and authenticated, also review HRMS access logs for authenticated sessions requesting employee records outside their own employee ID, invalidate or rotate credentials of any suspicious accounts, and enforce least-privilege role assignment so fewer accounts can reach employee-data endpoints at all. Note that generic input filtering or WAF rules are unlikely to be reliable here, since the request is well-formed and the defect is missing authorization, not malformed input.

Affected VersionsENISA

hrms < 15.58.3
hrms 16.0.0, < 16.4.3

Affected Packages

euvd hrms fix: 15.58.3, 16.4.3

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): the affected Frappe HRMS PWA API handlers, including the employee-info endpoint in hrms/api/__init__.py, used Frappe's frappe.get_all query helper, which performs database reads without applying the requesting user's permission rules. The upstream fix replaces frappe.get_all with frappe.get_list, the permission-aware counterpart that filters results by the session user's roles and document permissions - a direct object-level authorization (IDOR-style) correction rather than a filter or input-validation change. This class of defect is common in Frappe/ERPNext applications, where the distinction between get_all and get_list is a frequent source of broken access control: get_all is intended only for privileged server-side contexts, while get_list enforces user permissions. Because the vulnerable surface is the HRMS progressive web app employee-data API, exposure is limited to instances that actually serve the PWA endpoints; the affected package is identified as cpe:2.3:a:frappe:hrms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* with all versions below the fixed releases covered by the wildcard.

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Severity by source

Vendor (GitHub_M) PRIMARY 6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 6.5 MEDIUM

Authenticated low-privilege user (PR:L) exploits over the network API (AV:N) with low complexity and no interaction; read-only cross-employee data exposure gives C:H, I:N, A:N.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/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
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

1
Patch available
Oct 16, 2026 - 22:03 EUVD

DescriptionCVE.org

Frappe HR is an open-source human resources management solution (HRMS). Prior to 15.58.3 and 16.4.3, HRMS PWA API endpoints for employee data do not consistently authorize employee-specific PWA API requests. An authenticated user requests records associated with another employee. The user can request records associated with another employee through PWA API endpoints. Successful exploitation can access sensitive HR data belonging to other employees. This issue is fixed in versions 15.58.3 and 16.4.3.

Threat Intelligence Overview

Prevalence
Low
niche open-source HRMS, limited enterprise deployment footprint
Social Media
1
Sightings
Data Quality
3 sources
Confidence: Low

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 No
EPSS N/A
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· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium

Priority Score

32
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +32
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

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