CVE-2026-73642Path Traversal in Dayforce ESS Excelity
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EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.42%, higher than 35% of scored CVEs.
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Dayforce ESS Excelity 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. This issue was fixed in version V4.
- CVSS
- 9.2 CRITICAL (v4.0, CNA)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
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- 0.42% (percentile 35)
- Assigned by
- CERT-PL
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Oct 13, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Dayforce ESS Excelity dayforce:ess_excelity (from the name) | before V4 | CNA record |
References
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/09/CVE-2026-73640third-party-advisory
- https://hcm.excelityglobal.com/ESSproduct
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