CVE-2026-105849

high

Description

Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. In versions from 3.0.0 before 3.90.0 and canary versions before 4.0.0-canary.34, users with ordinary read access to other authentication documents in a collection with useAPIKey enabled can obtain active API keys and exercise the target accounts' permissions until those keys are rotated or disabled. This issue is fixed in versions 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34.

References

https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/security/advisories/GHSA-238x-w2j9-gwwr

https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/releases/tag/v3.90.0

https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/commit/880d2e900be22cd66a9e939f2b3e702fa413180f

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-93492

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-06

Updated: 2026-10-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00309