# CVE-2026-94496: jshERP privilege escalation in role management endpoints

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-94496-jsherp-through-3-6-fails-to-validate-caller-permissions-in-role  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-09-21. Updated: 2026-09-26  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2026-94496 · Severity: high · CVSS 8.3 · Published 2026-09-21

jshERP is an open-source ERP system for small and medium enterprises that manages inventory, sales, purchasing, and financial operations. An authenticated user with any privilege level can modify role definitions and permissions for other users, widening data visibility to all company records or deleting roles entirely, leading to unauthorized access to sensitive business data and potential privilege escalation.

Technologies: [Jishenghua jshERP](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/jsherp). Vendors: [Jishenghua](https://junglewise.ai/threats/vendors/jishenghua).

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2026-94496 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-94496 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2026-94496?** High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.3, published 21 September 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** Jishenghua jshERP through 3.6.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2026-94496?** 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-2026-94496 attacked?** It is attacked over the network, in a web application.

**Am I affected by CVE-2026-94496?** Check whether you run Jishenghua jshERP 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 a missing authorization check (CWE-862) in the /role/update and /role/delete endpoints. Any authenticated tenant user can invoke these endpoints to modify the data scope of any role to "all data" or delete roles, bypassing the permission validation that exists in the tenantRoleList method. An attacker with a low-privilege account token can escalate privileges and exfiltrate all business records within the tenant.

## Affected products

- jishenghua jshERP through 3.6

## Timeline

- 2026-09-21: disclosed

## References

- [https://github.com/LinYuanyi1/cve-request-poc/blob/master/jshERP/poc-11-role-tamper.py](https://github.com/LinYuanyi1/cve-request-poc/blob/master/jshERP/poc-11-role-tamper.py)
- [https://github.com/jishenghua/jshERP](https://github.com/jishenghua/jshERP)

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