CVE-2026-73642: Dayforce Payroll

Critical severity, CVSS 9.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Dayforce Payroll: version R2026.2.0 only

Published 2026-09-28. Last modified 2026-09-28.