CVE-2026-73642 PUBLISHED

Path Traversal in Dayforce Payroll

Assigner: CERT-PL
Reserved: 13.08.2026 Published: 28.09.2026 Updated: 28.09.2026

Dayforce Payroll is vulnerable to Path Traversal in file download functionality. An unauthenticated attacker can sent GET request with file path parameter set to any path including an absolute local file path.

Because vendor contact attempts were unsuccessful, the vulnerability has only been confirmed in version R2026.2.0 but may also affect other versions.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.2

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Network	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	High
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	None	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	None	Availability	None
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	Dayforce
Product	Payroll
Versions	Default: unknown Version R2026.2.0 is affected

Credits

Dawid Dudek (4c1d8urn) finder

References

Problem Types

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-126 Path Traversal
CAPEC-76 Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls