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, a malformed multipart request body can cause multipart Content-Type processing to take an extremely long time, resulting in uncontrolled resource consumption. This issue is fixed in versions 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34.
Published: 2026-10-06
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-2g7p-5934-q4w7 Payload: ReDoS in Multipart Content-Type Validation
History

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

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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, a malformed multipart request body can cause multipart Content-Type processing to take an extremely long time, resulting in uncontrolled resource consumption. This issue is fixed in versions 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34.
Title Payload: ReDoS in Multipart Content-Type Validation
Weaknesses CWE-1333
CWE-400
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

Subscriptions

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-06T17:30:01.567Z

Reserved: 2026-10-05T23:06:29.748Z

Link: CVE-2026-105854

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-06T17:29:56.831Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-06T17:17:21.290

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

Link: CVE-2026-105854

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-06T18:00:05Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-1333

    Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

  • CWE-400

    Uncontrolled Resource Consumption