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Medium · 5.7 CVE-2026-105804 EUVD-2026-93463GHSA-q6mq-ch85-c8mm

Payload: Password hashes use insufficient PBKDF2 iterations

Published Oct 6, 2026 · Updated Oct 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
payloadcms payload >= 3.0.0, < 3.90.0, >= 4.0.0-canary.0, < 4.0.0-canary.34 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm payload >= 3.0.0, < 3.90.0 3.90.0 GHSA-q6mq-ch85-c8mm
npm payload >= 4.0.0-canary.0, < 4.0.0-canary.34 4.0.0-canary.34 GHSA-q6mq-ch85-c8mm

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