Frappe india-payroll before 16.0.4 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the getemployeedetails, computetaxcomparison and…
CVE-2026-129429
Frappe india-payroll before 16.0.4 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the getemployeedetails, computetaxcomparison and settaxregime methods of taxregimeselector.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.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 7.1 (v4.0)
- Severity
- High
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 14 November 2026
- Last updated
- 14 November 2026
- Affected
- frappe · india-payroll
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- 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
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