CVE
india-payroll unauthorized payroll data access in tax regime selector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Exploited
- No known exploitation
- Fix
- Fixed in 16.0.4
- Who is exposed
- Specific setups only
Do first: Check whether your setup matches what the bug needs. india-payroll versions before 16.0.4
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- Last checked
- A 0-100 score for how much a CVE matters across the industry: exploitation, exposure, how widely the software is used, severity and whether a fix exists.What do these mean? →
- 15/100 · provisional
- How many real-world setups can hit the bug, from the vendor's advisory and CISA data. It does not know your setup.What do these mean? →
- Specific setups only
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
Frappe india-payroll versions before 16.0.4 contain a missing authorization flaw in the tax regime selector that lets a logged-in low-privileged user reach other employees' payroll data over the network. An attacker can read base pay and earning and deduction details for another employee, or change the tax regime on draft salary structure assignments, which can alter tax withholding.
Written by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 from the sources below. Verify against them.
Original description
Frappe india-payroll before 16.0.4 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the get_employee_details, compute_tax_comparison and set_tax_regime methods of tax_regime_selector.py that allows authenticated low-privileged users to access other employees' payroll data. Attackers can supply another employee identifier to read base pay and earning and deduction components, or change the tax regime on draft Salary Structure Assignments to affect tax withholding.
Who should check
Teams running Frappe india-payroll before 16.0.4, such as HR and payroll teams on Frappe/ERPNext with employee self-service or Salary Structure Assignment access.
“Frappe india-payroll before 16.0.4”
cve.now Index
- Exploitation?/40Unknown. No CISA SSVC exploitation rating yet
- Exposure8/25Specific setups only, reachable over the network
- Reach?/20Unknown. No tracked technology or package matched
- Severity7.1/10CVSS 7.1
- No patch0/5No signal
What would change the score
- Would score about 65 if added to CISA KEV
- Would score about 60 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
- Would score about 22 if CISA's SSVC rates it automatable
What to do
Check whether your setup matches what the bug needs.
india-payroll versions before 16.0.4Upgrade to a fixed version: 16.0.4.
Check your systems with an agent
Paste this into a coding or ops agent. It checks your systems read-only and reports a table per asset.
Check whether my systems are affected by CVE-2026-129429 (Frappe india-payroll before 16.0.4 Missing Authorization via Tax Regime Selector), using the cve.now data below.
Rules: work read-only. Do not run exploit code, proof-of-concept scripts or scanners that send attack payloads, and do not change any configuration, package, image or deployment. Report findings only.
What cve.now has for CVE-2026-129429 (entry last updated 2026-11-14):
Affected:
- frappe india-payroll: fixed in 16.0.4
Fixed versions: 16.0.4.
Conditions (all must be true for the bug to be hit):
- india-payroll versions before 16.0.4 (source: https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/frappe-india-payroll-before-16.0.4-missing-authorization-via-tax-regime-selector)
Setup: unknown whether the bug needs a non-default feature or setting. Check the advisory.
Attacker needs: network access, low-privilege login, no user action.
CISA KEV: CVE-2026-129429 is not listed as of cve.now's last read.
This KEV status is for CVE-2026-129429 only. If you also check another CVE, look up its own KEV status; never assume it from this one.
How to check:
- Installed software: check what is actually running, not what a repo declares. Read the version from each host, container image and Kubernetes node (the binary's version output, the OS package database, image layers), and check whether the conditions above hold there. Distribution packages may carry a backported fix under an older version number; confirm against the distribution's own advisory.
Verify against the linked advisories before concluding, and cite the date you read each one:
- https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll/security/advisories/GHSA-758f-34xj-xvcc
- https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll/commit/78de736298a340ecb971826a5df10e7204773cef
- https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll/commit/bdb988f172663db4054f9c3fc23833f10c3b60b0
- https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll/blob/9c1fc91b34de8a55df58aa5f2dbabff95dedb4d1/india_payroll/india_payroll/page/tax_regime_selector/tax_regime_selector.py#L207-L215
- https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll/releases/tag/v16.0.4
- https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/frappe-india-payroll-before-16.0.4-missing-authorization-via-tax-regime-selector
Do not conclude an asset is unaffected unless you checked it and the evidence covers both its version and the conditions above. If you could not check something, mark it unknown and say what is missing.
Report a table with one row per asset and these columns: Asset | Version or build | Status (affected, fixed, not applicable, unknown) | Compensating controls | Exposure (internet-facing, internal, none) | Evidence | Next action.
Entry: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-129429
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- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
Affected versions
- frappe india-payroll
fixed in 16.0.4
Evidence 9
Vendor advisory · 1
Establishes: Affected and fixed versions.
- Advisory
CVE record · 2
Establishes: The identifier and description.
- Record
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Other links · 6
- Patch
- Patch
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about CVE-2026-129429
Is CVE-2026-129429 being exploited?
It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data
What does this mean?
A missing authorization check in the Tax Regime selector lets any logged-in user read and change employee data beyond their permitted role. The facts say this includes other employees' base pay, earning and deduction components, and the tax regime on draft Salary Structure Assignments.Source: vulncheck.com, github.com
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-129429?
india-payroll: before 16.0.4.Source: cve.now feed data
Am I affected, and how do I check?
Frappe india-payroll versions before 16.0.4 are listed as affected. To check a installation, look at the installed india-payroll version in the Frappe bench or app list.Source: vulncheck.com, github.com
How do I fix CVE-2026-129429?
The facts list 16.0.4 as the first fixed version, but they do not include a fix entry, so confirm the fixed release in the vendor's advisory before relying on it. Upgrade india-payroll to 16.0.4 or later once that is confirmed.Source: vulncheck.com, github.com