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CVE-2026-116806: OpenPanel before 3.0.0 Privilege Escalation via onboarding.project tRPC Mutation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-26 · updated 2026-10-27
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

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.

Affected products

• Openpanel-dev openpanel: before 3.0.0 — fixed in 3.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Openpanel-dev openpanel 3.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/Openpanel-dev/openpanel/commit/35c2a138fb9f8dde67dadfd426892f3762b25b78
• https://github.com/Openpanel-dev/openpanel/security/advisories/GHSA-5f38-q67m-mcmp
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openpanel-before-3.0.0-privilege-escalation-via-onboarding-project-trpc-mutation

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