CVE-2026-105804

Payload: Password hashes use insufficient PBKDF2 iterations

State: Published
Severity: 5.7 Medium
Published: Oct 6, 2026
Updated: Oct 6, 2026
Reserved: Oct 5, 2026

Description

Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. Payload versions from 3.0.0 before 3.90.0 and canary versions from 4.0.0-canary.0 before 4.0.0-canary.34 use a lower-than-recommended PBKDF2 work factor for password hashing, reducing the computational effort required to test recovered password hashes. This issue is fixed in versions 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.7 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort

Affected Products

Product	Versions
payloadpayloadcms	>= 3.0.0, < 3.90.0Affected >= 4.0.0-canary.0, < 4.0.0-canary.34Affected

References

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