🛡️ CVE-2026-40866

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-284 NVD
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Description

Horilla is a free and open source Human Resource Management System (HRMS). In 1.5.0, an insecure direct object reference in the employee document upload endpoint allows any authenticated user to overwrite or replace or corrupt another employee’s document by changing the document ID in the upload request. This enables unauthorized modification of HR records.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-40866 is classified as CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The software does not restrict an action to the actors that should be allowed to perform it.

Affected software

CVE-2026-40866 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 21 April 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-04-21
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
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