CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-105849

7.7 HIGH Published 2026-10-06 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-10-06
Last modified
2026-10-15
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
7.7 HIGH — 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-201, CWE-862

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.

Affected configurations

• payloadcms payload (>= 3.0.0 < 3.90.0) • payloadcms payload 4.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-201 Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data weakness
  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness

References