CVE-2026-44986: Penpot: Pre-authenticated account takeover via team-invitation token + prepare-register-profile

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-07-15 · updated 2026-07-15
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

Penpot is an open-source design tool for design and code collaboration. Prior to 2.14.5, Penpot exposed teams_invitations.clj invitation tokens from create-team-invitations, embedded an existing profile id in auth.clj prepare-register-profile, and had auth.clj register-profile issue a session based on the invitation email match without password verification, allowing a registered user to take over any non-blocked profile. This issue is fixed in version 2.14.5.

Affected products

penpot: before 2.14.5

References

https://github.com/penpot/penpot/commit/9e681260ccc4feb6c564ff0773fb9594b462c574
https://github.com/penpot/penpot/pull/9380
https://github.com/penpot/penpot/releases/tag/2.14.5
https://github.com/penpot/penpot/security/advisories/GHSA-4937-35vc-hqjj
https://github.com/penpot/penpot/security/advisories/GHSA-4937-35vc-hqjj

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