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CVE-2019-7872 — community-edition

MEDIUM

CVE-2019-7872 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.5) CWE-639 vulnerability in magento/community-edition. A fix is available for magento/community-edition — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Magento Insufficient authorization check when adding users to company accounts

Also known asGHSA-pfxv-66r9-4gqw
Published
Updated
Affected
3 pkgs
Patched
3 / 3
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 1, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.9%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs60th percentile — riskier than 60% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.47%0.93%1.40%0.1%0.9%May 26Aug 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

3 pkgs affected
🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

An insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerability exists in Magento 2.1 prior to 2.1.18, Magento 2.2 prior to 2.2.9, Magento 2.3 prior to 2.3.2 due to insufficient authorizations checks. This can be abused by a user with admin privileges to add users to company accounts or modify existing user details.

Affected Packages

3 total 3 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐘Packagistmagento/community-edition≥ 2.1&&< 2.1.182.1.18composer require magento/community-edition:^2.1.18
🐘Packagistmagento/community-edition≥ 2.2&&< 2.2.92.2.9composer require magento/community-edition:^2.2.9
🐘Packagistmagento/community-edition≥ 2.3&&< 2.3.22.3.2composer require magento/community-edition:^2.3.2

Affected Products

1 product · 3 configurations
Application
magentomagento
≥ 2.3.0 && < 2.3.2
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for magento/community-edition, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update magento/community-edition to 2.1.18 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2019-7872 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

Frequently Asked Questions

An insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerability exists in Magento 2.1 prior to 2.1.18, Magento 2.2 prior to 2.2.9, Magento 2.3 prior to 2.3.2 due to insufficient authorizations checks. This can be abused by a user with admin privileges to add users to company accounts or modify existing user details.
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CVE-2019-7872: community-edition — Fixed in 2.1.18