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CVE-2026-105652

npm · ghost

Summary

Ghost: Password Hash Ordering Disclosure in Ghost Admin API

Severity
low
CVSS
3.1
EPSS
0.3% (p17)
CWE
CWE-203, CWE-943
Also known as
GHSA-53vv-xm9f-mm82
Published
2026-10-07
Updated
2026-10-07

Advisory details

Impact

Any staff-level user was able to determine the relative ordering of other staff users' hashed passwords. This does not directly disclose password hashes, and does not provide a practical path to recovering a password.

Vulnerable versions

This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v0.7.2 up to v6.64.0.

Patches

v6.64.0 contains a fix for this issue.

How to update

For self-hosters using Docker, find Docker's official Ghost image here. Updating a Docker-based Ghost instance is documented here.

If your Ghost is a Ghost-CLI install see our documentation on updating it to the latest version here.

References

Ghost thanks carfeii and Nhat Anh Vu for disclosing this vulnerability responsibly.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at security@ghost.org.

References

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Sources: CISA KEV (public domain), OSV.dev & GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY-4.0), FIRST EPSS, NVD/CWE (public domain). Served live from the Stateward advisory database.