CVE-2026-40865

Horilla: Insecure Direct Object Reference at `/employee/view-file/<int:id>

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Apr 21, 2026
Updated: Apr 21, 2026
Reserved: Apr 15, 2026

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 viewer allows any authenticated user to access other employees’ uploaded documents by changing the document ID in the request. This exposes sensitive HR files such as identity documents, contracts, certificates, and other private employee records.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.1 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-284 Improper Access Control
CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Affected Products

Product	Versions
horillahorilla-opensource	1.5.0Affected

References

https://github.com/horilla/horilla-hr/security/advisories/GHSA-85cj-fwjh-fjv7

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