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

- Also known as: GHSA-MX4V-CMXQ-644V
- Severity: CVSS 6.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.18.0
- Published: 2026-10-05 · Updated: 2026-10-06

## Affected

- penpot: fixed in 2.18.0

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on penpot, upgrade to a fixed version (2.18.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

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

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