CVE-2026-41160 PUBLISHED

EspoCRM: Broken Access Control / IDOR in Note Pinning API allows unauthorized modification of notes

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 17.04.2026 Published: 28.05.2026 Updated: 28.05.2026

EspoCRM is an open source customer relationship management application. Prior to 9.3.5, a business logic flaw (Broken Access Control) in EspoCRM 9.3.3 allows low-privileged users to pin arbitrary notes without having the required edit permissions for the parent object. Due to a "write first, authorize later" execution flaw in the backend API, even though the server correctly returns a 403 Forbidden error, the targeted note's pinned status is already persistently modified in the database. The root cause lies in the server-side processing of the POST /api/v1/Note/{id}/pin endpoint. In application/Espo/Tools/Stream/Api/PostNotePin.php, the process() method first calls getNote($id) before calling checkParent($note). This vulnerability is fixed in 9.3.5.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor espocrm
Product espocrm
Versions
  • Version < 9.3.5 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-284: Improper Access Control CWE
  • CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE
  • CWE-862: Missing Authorization CWE