Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate with low-privilege account
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ExploitIdentify unprotected endpoints
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ExecutionSend request bypassing role checks
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ImpactModify restricted documents/data
Vulnerability Assessment
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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 a valid authenticated ERPNext account with at least low-privilege role access (PR:L) and access to the specific endpoints that fail to enforce authorization checks. There is no user-interaction requirement (UI:N) and no special non-default configuration is named in the advisory - the flaw lies in the endpoints' own missing role enforcement. Limiting factors: the attacker must already possess working credentials, the impact is confined to modifying documents/data beyond the attacker's assigned role (low integrity/confidentiality impact, no availability impact), and affected deployments must run a version prior to 15.121.1 or 16.x prior to 16.34.2. |
| Impact | This is a moderate, authenticated access-control flaw (CWE-862, missing authorization) rather than a high-urgency issue. The provided CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N) aligns well with the description: network-reachable, low complexity, but requiring an already-authenticated low-privilege account (PR:L) and yielding only low confidentiality and integrity impact with no availability impact. No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, POC, or SSVC decision data was supplied, so there is no signal of active or probable exploitation - exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' The signals are internally consistent (no CVSS-vs-description conflict), and the low impact metrics indicate a privilege-boundary violation (an authenticated user acting beyond their assigned role) rather than full compromise. Priority is driven by context: organizations running ERPNext with many low-trust user accounts should patch promptly, but this is not a mass-exploitation 'drop everything' flaw. Note: no EPSS data was provided, so widespread-exploitation likelihood cannot be quantified from the input. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A low-privileged but authenticated ERPNext user (for example, a limited sales or support account) sends crafted requests directly to the affected endpoints that skip role-based authorization checks, modifying documents or records their role should not permit - such as altering financial or HR documents. No public exploit code was identified, and the attack requires valid credentials and some knowledge of the vulnerable endpoints. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 12, 2026
Missing authorization enforcement in certain Frappe ERPNext endpoints allows an authenticated user holding only low-privilege role access to modify documents and records beyond the permissions assigned to their role, affecting all releases before 15.121.1 and 16.x before 16.34.2. Exploitation requires valid ERPNext credentials and the ability to reach the affected endpoints, but no user interaction and no non-default configuration - the flaw lies in the endpoints' own failure to check roles (CWE-862). Impact is bounded to low confidentiality and low integrity effects with no availability impact, no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vendor has released patched versions (see advisory GHSA-49wp-r82c-j825).
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade to ERPNext 15.121.1 (15.x line) or 16.34.2 (16.x line), as referenced in advisory https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/security/advisories/GHSA-49wp-r82c-j825. Until upgrade is possible, compensating controls should target the authenticated-but-underprivileged threat model: review and reduce the number of accounts with any low-privilege role that can authenticate to the API, since the exploit only needs working credentials; restrict network exposure of the ERPNext web/REST endpoints to trusted networks or a reverse proxy that blocks untrusted clients (trade-off: breaks legitimate remote/mobile access); apply granular Frappe role and user permission rules so that sensitive DocTypes grant no write access to low-privilege roles (trade-off: additional administrative effort and possible disruption if legitimate workflows rely on broad roles); and enable audit logging or document version tracking to detect unexpected document modifications, accepting that this is detective rather than preventive. Because no availability impact is involved, rate limiting is not a meaningful mitigation here - the exposure is unauthorized writes, not service disruption.
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ERPNext is an open-source ERP suite built on the Frappe framework, where business logic is exposed through REST and whitelisted RPC endpoints that are expected to consult Frappe's role-based permission system (DocType-level and document-level permissions) before reading or writing records. The vulnerability is an instance of CWE-862 (Missing Authorization): specific endpoints dispatch actions and persist changes without performing the requisite role or permission check, so the request succeeds based on the caller's authentication alone rather than on their assigned privileges. Because the CPE entry is cpe:2.3:a:frappe:erpnext:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, every ERPNext release is nominally in scope, with the fixed lines being 15.121.1 and 16.34.2. The assessed vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N confirms a network-reachable, low-privilege (authenticated, PR:L) attack path with no scope change and no availability impact, consistent with the reported CVSS 4.0 score of 5.3; note that the 4.0 vector's threat and environmental metrics are all 'X' (not defined), so the base severity should be treated as the reliable signal.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Requires a valid low-privilege authenticated account so PR:L, network-reachable with no user interaction (AV:N/AC:L/UI:N), and the role-boundary violation yields limited confidentiality and integrity impact only.
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1DescriptionCVE.org
Frappe ERPNext before 15.121.1 and 16.x before 16.34.2 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in certain endpoints that fail to enforce proper authorization checks. Authenticated attackers can send requests to these endpoints to modify documents and data beyond what their assigned role permits.
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