CVE-2026-16772: Akaunting

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Akaunting versions <= 3.1.21, low‑privileged authenticated users can modify their own account to assign themselves the admin role ID, granting full administrator privileges. This vulnerability is caused by a flaw in the `UpdateUser` job, which processes user-supplied role assignments via an unconditional `roles()->sync()` call without verifying whether the caller is authorized to manage roles. Users only require the default `update-auth-profile` permission to access the self-update path and assign themselves as admins. The API endpoints are properly permission‑gated and are not affected by this issue. This vulnerability has been remediated in v3.2.0, commit 80ef6d3b154a.

Affected products

• Akaunting Akaunting: up to and including 3.1.21

Published 2026-08-14. Last modified 2026-09-14.