---
id: CVE-2026-105688
title: Penpot is an open-source design and prototyping platform
summary: >-
  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 an…
severity: medium
cvss: 6.7
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-269
vendor: penpot
product: penpot
affected:
  - penpot < 2.18.0
published: '2026-10-05'
updated: '2026-10-06'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-06T14:17:38.453'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105688'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/penpot/penpot/commit/5efd9cc3c5689485322f57b644b83a3bd2e33cee
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/penpot/penpot/releases/tag/2.18.0'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/penpot/penpot/security/advisories/GHSA-mx4v-cmxq-644v'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/penpot/penpot/security/advisories/GHSA-mx4v-cmxq-644v'
    label: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
  - exploit-available
exploitAvailable: true
ssvc:
  exploitation: poc
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: total
  timestamp: '2026-10-06T13:44:53.635776Z'
ingestedAt: '2026-10-05T20:32:56.651Z'
epss: 0.00332
epssPercentile: 0.26313
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.