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CVE-2026-23946

Tendenci is an open source content management system built for non-profits, associations and cause-based sites. Versions 15.3.11 and below include a critical deserialization vulnerability in the Helpdesk module (which is not enabled by default). This vulnerability allows Remote Code Execution (RCE) by an authenticated user with staff security level due to using Python's pickle module in helpdesk /reports/. The original CVE-2020-14942 was incompletely patched. While ticket_list() was fixed to use
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:b30213c23c1a589616b4cfb757a39633c6621d7b3bb9bedb3d43f806234e333b
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cwe · 2 assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-502","description":"CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

{"cweId":"CWE-94","description":"CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/1/descriptions/0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"product":"tendenci","vendor":"tendenci","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"< 15.3.12"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":6.8,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"HIGH","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"REQUIRED","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

2 source assertions
{"cweId":"CWE-502","description":"CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
{"cweId":"CWE-94","description":"CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/1/descriptions/0

Source references

8 source assertions
{"name":"https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html#restricting-globals","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html#restricting-globals"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"name":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jqmc-fxxp-r589","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jqmc-fxxp-r589"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/references/6
{"name":"https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci/commit/23d9fd85ab7654e9c83cfc86cb4175c0bd7a77f1","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci/commit/23d9fd85ab7654e9c83cfc86cb4175c0bd7a77f1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"name":"https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci/commit/2ff0a457614944a1b417081c543ea4c5bb95d636","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci/commit/2ff0a457614944a1b417081c543ea4c5bb95d636"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"name":"https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci/commit/63e1b84a5b163466d1d8d811d35e7021a7ca0d0e","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci/commit/63e1b84a5b163466d1d8d811d35e7021a7ca0d0e"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"name":"https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci/issues/867","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci/issues/867"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"name":"https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci/releases/tag/v15.3.12","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci/releases/tag/v15.3.12"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/references/7
{"name":"https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci/security/advisories/GHSA-339m-4qw5-j2g3","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"],"url":"https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci/security/advisories/GHSA-339m-4qw5-j2g3"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:0a89552785eee180ec3cd07a95dc7437ee52db2b2a1cbfb2e46dcb64caba4d08 · sha256:5c9e038e7c2ce4b1… · /containers/cna/references/0

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