Critical 9.9Published Jul 15, 2026

CVE-2026-44986Penpot: Pre-authenticated account takeover via team-invitation token + prepare-register-profile

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 12:50 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

Penpot is an open-source design tool for design and code collaboration. Prior to 2.14.5, Penpot exposed teams_invitations.clj invitation tokens from create-team-invitations, embedded an existing profile id in auth.clj prepare-register-profile, and had auth.clj register-profile issue a session based on the invitation email match without password verification, allowing a registered user to take over any non-blocked profile. This issue is fixed in version 2.14.5.

CVSS: 9.9 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-287, CWE-639
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Jul 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

penpot penpot penpot:penpot (from the name)	before 2.14.5	CNA record

References

References

https://github.com/penpot/penpot/security/advisories/GHSA-4937-35vc-hqjj	x-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/penpot/penpot/pull/9380	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/penpot/penpot/commit/9e681260ccc4feb6c564ff0773fb9594b462c574	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/penpot/penpot/releases/tag/2.14.5	x-refsource-misc

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