CVE-2026-39397: @delmaredigital/payload puck @delmaredigital/payload-puc Is Missing Authorization On Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-65w6-pf7x-5g85",
  "modified" : "2026-04-08T00:15:54Z",
  "published" : "2026-04-08T00:15:54Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2026-39397" ],
  "summary" : "@delmaredigital/payload-puc is missing authorization on /api/puck/* CRUD endpoints allows unauthenticated access to Puck-registered collections",
  "details" : "### Impact\n\nAll `/api/puck/*` CRUD endpoint handlers registered by `createPuckPlugin()` called Payload's local API with the default `overrideAccess: true`, bypassing all collection-level access control. The `access` option passed to `createPuckPlugin()` and any `access` rules defined on Puck-registered collections were silently ignored on these endpoints.\n\nAn unauthenticated remote attacker could:\n\n- List all documents (including drafts) in any Puck-registered collection\n- Read any document by ID (including drafts)\n- Create new documents with arbitrary field values\n- Update any document (including bypassing field-level access rules)\n- Delete any document\n- Read version history and restore arbitrary versions\n\n**In typical installations**, the affected scope is the collection backing the website's pages (default slug: `pages`). For most users this means an attacker could read, modify, create, or delete every page on the website — including unpublished drafts and version history.\n\n**Scope is limited to collections explicitly registered with `createPuckPlugin()`** — the endpoints validate the collection slug against an allowlist, so attackers cannot pivot to other Payload collections such as `users`, `media`, or business data not exposed to the plugin. The auto-created `puck-templates`, `puck-ai-prompts`, and `puck-ai-context` collections are also outside the allowlist; they have their own dedicated endpoints with separate authentication.\n\nOther endpoints in the plugin (AI, styles, prompts, context, and the Next.js API route factories in `src/api/`) were unaffected — they had their own authentication checks.\n\n### Patches\n\nFixed in **0.6.23**. All endpoint handlers in `src/endpoints/index.ts` now pass `overrideAccess: false` and forward `req` to Payload's local API, so collection-level access rules are evaluated against the current user.\n\n### Workarounds\n\nIf you cannot upgrade immediately, place a reverse-proxy or middleware authentication check in front of `/api/puck/*` to require an authenticated session before requests reach the plugin's handlers.",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "npm",
      "name" : "@delmaredigital/payload-puck"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "0.6.23"
      } ]
    } ]
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/delmaredigital/payload-puck/security/advisories/GHSA-65w6-pf7x-5g85"
  }, {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-39397"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/delmaredigital/payload-puck/issues/7"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/delmaredigital/payload-puck/commit/9148201c6bbfa140d44546438027a2f8a70f79a4"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/delmaredigital/payload-puck"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-862" ],
    "severity" : "CRITICAL",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2026-04-08T00:15:54Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : "2026-04-07T21:17:18Z"
  }
}