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

Type: advisorySources: OSV

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.

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CVEs
CVE-2026-105688
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3 Nov 2026, 01:12 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

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

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Oct 2026, 19:50 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2026-105688
Complete source record
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