CVE-2026-105866

Payload: Unauthenticated account-lockout denial of service

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.

Affected

payloadcms · payload

CVSS v4.0 GITHUB

6.9 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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 v4.0 GitHub

6.9 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS v3.1 NVD

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 30th percentile

Published

2026-10-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• payloadcms/payload/security/advisories/GHSA-v5gf-vpjc-pc7w
• payloadcms/payload/releases/tag/v3.90.045286★ · 2026-10-16

Security advisories

• advisories/GHSA-v5gf-vpjc-pc7w

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2022-27952
• CVE-2023-30843
• CVE-2025-4643
• CVE-2025-4644
• CVE-2026-105804
• CVE-2026-105805