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.
Published: 2026-10-06
Score: 7.7 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-238x-w2j9-gwwr Payload vulnerable to API key disclosure through ordinary document reads
History

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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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.
Title Payload: API key disclosure through ordinary document reads
Weaknesses CWE-201
CWE-862
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'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'}


Subscriptions

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-06T17:26:23.270Z

Reserved: 2026-10-05T23:06:29.747Z

Link: CVE-2026-105849

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-06T17:26:18.963Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-06T17:17:20.470

Modified: 2026-10-06T20:03:40.690

Link: CVE-2026-105849

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-06T18:15:04Z

Weaknesses