# CVE-2026-129429: Frappe india-payroll before 16.0.4 Missing Authorization via Tax Regime Selector

Status: published. Published: 2026-11-14. Updated: 2026-11-14.

Frappe india-payroll before 16.0.4 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the get_employee_details, compute_tax_comparison and set_tax_regime methods of tax_regime_selector.py that allows authenticated low-privileged users to access other employees' payroll data. Attackers can supply another employee identifier to read base pay and earning and deduction components, or change the tax regime on draft Salary Structure Assignments to affect tax withholding.

## Remediation

- fix: The reporting source identifies this reference as a patch. Check the advisory for affected versions and supported release branches. (source: CNA: VulnCheck) — https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll/commit/78de736298a340ecb971826a5df10e7204773cef
- fix: The reporting source identifies this reference as a patch. Check the advisory for affected versions and supported release branches. (source: CNA: VulnCheck) — https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll/commit/bdb988f172663db4054f9c3fc23833f10c3b60b0

## Affected products and versions

- frappe / india-payroll (frappe/india-payroll): ≥ 0; < 16.0.4 (affected, semver); 16.0.4 (unaffected, semver). Source: CNA: VulnCheck

## Severity and prioritization

- CVSS 4.0: 7.1 (high); CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N; source: CNA: VulnCheck

- CVSS 3.1: 7.1 (high); CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N; source: CNA: VulnCheck

- CISA KEV: No listing in collected sources

- EPSS: Not available

- SSVC: Not available

- Weaknesses: CWE-862

## Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

## References

- https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll/security/advisories/GHSA-758f-34xj-xvcc (CNA: VulnCheck; vendor-advisory)

- https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll/commit/78de736298a340ecb971826a5df10e7204773cef (CNA: VulnCheck; patch)

- https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll/commit/bdb988f172663db4054f9c3fc23833f10c3b60b0 (CNA: VulnCheck; patch)

- https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll/blob/9c1fc91b34de8a55df58aa5f2dbabff95dedb4d1/india_payroll/india_payroll/page/tax_regime_selector/tax_regime_selector.py#L207-L215 (CNA: VulnCheck; technical-description)

- https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll/releases/tag/v16.0.4 (CNA: VulnCheck; release-notes)

- https://github.com/frappe/india-payroll (CNA: VulnCheck; product)

- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/frappe-india-payroll-before-16.0.4-missing-authorization-via-tax-regime-selector (CNA: VulnCheck; third-party-advisory)

## Provenance

- CNA: VulnCheck: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-129429; retrieved 2026-11-14; source updated 2026-11-14

Revision: d566cede605e3b365f750df76d7598e662bacb95fee94509df4cf3e0fbb06584

Canonical: https://y2.dev/cve/CVE-2026-129429

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