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CVE-2025-4644 (GCVE-0-2025-4644)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-08-29 10:01

Modified

2025-08-29 11:53

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE

CWE-384 - Session Fixation

Summary

A Session Fixation vulnerability existed in Payload's SQLite adapter due to identifier reuse during account creation. A malicious attacker could create a new account, save its JSON Web Token (JWT), and then delete the account, which did not invalidate the JWT. As a result, the next newly created user would receive the same identifier, allowing the attacker to reuse the JWT to authenticate and perform actions as that user. This issue has been fixed in version 3.44.0 of Payload.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://cert.pl/en/posts/2025/08/CVE-2025-4643	third-party-advisory
	https://payloadcms.com	product
	https://github.com/payloadcms/payload	product

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Payload CMS	Payload	Version: 0 ≤

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CVE-2025-4643 (GCVE-0-2025-4643)