Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-85697 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-85697 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-85697?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.5, published 4 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Documenso 2.17.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-85697?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-85697 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-85697?
- Check whether you run Documenso at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is an access control failure in the PDF-serving endpoint that does not validate document visibility settings or ownership before serving files. The root cause is missing ownership validation on document data identifiers in the files.helpers.ts component. Attackers with low privileges (authenticated users) can craft requests to bypass these checks and retrieve restricted documents within their team or across tenant boundaries. The attack requires network access to the application and user authentication, but no additional user interaction. An attacker can achieve unauthorized document disclosure affecting confidentiality.
Affected products
- Documenso Documenso 2.17.0
Timeline
- 2026-09-04: disclosed