Frappe HR (hrms) before 16.11.0, including all 14.x and 15.x releases through 15.64.3, contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the whitelisted expire_allocation method that allows authenticated users to expire any leave allocation. Attackers without HR roles can name another employee's Leave Allocation in a POST request to zero its allocated leaves and wipe that employee's remaining leave balance.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 2
- StatusReceived → DeferredNVD modified 2026-10-18 12:17
- First seenCVSS 5.3NVD modified 2026-10-11 13:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 6
- https://github.com/frappe/hrms
- https://github.com/frappe/hrms/blob/0a54d2c7b8b6043e2705b6f557b6ed65260670dd/hrms/hr/doctype/leave_ledger_entry/leave_ledger_entry.py#L199-L228
- https://github.com/frappe/hrms/commit/6ab7a50347367413b78ad5bd5d9e4b8c6653c81f
- https://github.com/frappe/hrms/releases/tag/v16.11.0
- https://hackmd.io/@haind03/frappe-hrms-expire-allocation-missing-authorization-20261010
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/frappe-hr-hrms-before-16.11.0-missing-authorization-via-expire-allocation