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Payload: Unauthenticated account-lockout denial of service

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. In versions before 3.90.0 and canary versions before 4.0.0-canary.34, an unauthenticated attacker who knows an account email address or username can abuse the account lockout mechanism of a local-authentication collection to prevent that account from signing in. This issue is fixed in versions 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34.

Announced Group revision 1
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CVE-2026-105866

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-105866

payload

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Prerequisites
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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

[
  {
    "vendor": "payloadcms",
    "product": "payload",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "< 3.90.0"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 4.0.0-canary.0, < 4.0.0-canary.34"
      }
    ]
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-105866

Source reference: /cveMetadata/cveId

Publisher severity

medium

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event
#9478 · Revision 1
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