What is CVE-2026-116806?

CVE-2026-116806 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openpanel-Dev Openpanel, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2026-10-27.

How severe is CVE-2026-116806?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Openpanel-Dev Openpanel

CVE-2026-116806

OpenPanel before 3.0.0 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the onboarding.project tRPC mutation that allows non-admin organization members to create projects and mint write-type ingestion credentials, bypassing the admin-only policy. Attackers can repeatedly call the endpoint with a member session to obtain plaintext secrets, inject fake analytics events, poison business metrics, and consume the organization's usage budget.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

Published 2026-10-27 · last modified 2026-10-27.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

No EPSS score from FIRST.org yet. New CVEs usually get one within a few days; no score means no signal yet, not low risk. How EPSS works.

Affected products

Openpanel-Dev Openpanel

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

github.com/Openpanel-dev/openpanel/security/advisories/GHSA-5f38-q67m-mcmp (vendor-advisory)
github.com/Openpanel-dev/openpanel/commit/35c2a138fb9f8dde67dadfd426892f3762b25… (patch)
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openpanel-before-3.0.0-privilege-escalation-via-on… (third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-116806?: CVE-2026-116806 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openpanel-Dev Openpanel, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2026-10-27.
How severe is CVE-2026-116806?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.