Friction

Pain point · Permissions & security · Causes churn

Community permissions exposed other users’ data

1 source thread · first seen 2022-05

Summary

A Salesforce database maintenance incident cleared permission settings, allowing external users to see data belonging to other users for nine hours. The team discovered the exposure through advanced logging.

Affects
Salesforce customers using Portal or Community tools for external users

Evidence

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“they would see all data for all users”

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