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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2026-23946 json

Tendenci has Authenticated Remote Code Execution via Pickle Deserialization

published 2026-01-21 9 mo ago modified 2026-07-07 4 mo ago also GHSA-339m-4qw5-j2g3 , PYSEC-2026-1950 , EUVD-2026-3670

cvss
6.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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 safe JSON deserialization, the run_report() function still uses unsafe pickle.loads(). The impact is limited to the permissions of the user running the application, typically www-data, which generally lacks write (except for upload directories) and execute permissions. This issue has been fixed in version 15.3.12.

Patch / fix

  • pypi tendenci 15.3.12
  • tendenci tendenci 15.3.12

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
9 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci/issues/867 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi tendenci
<15.3.12
15.3.12

Affected products

  • tendenci tendenci

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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