Vulnerability advisory

CVE-2026-88952

OAuth2 sign-in attached to an existing account without an email comparison in AshAuthentication

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Also known as EEF-CVE-2026-88952GHSA-wc6x-276q-jrf9

Severity
  • CVSS 4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected versions

Repository

Affected commitsFixed by commit
GIT github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication ↗
64530644f9b37ebb76ca14aeb83a77597a0034b7 to before 738bf9f32f2aa0d1bb92ce9ca5c2476cb5710459738bf9f32f2aa0d1bb92ce9ca5c2476cb5710459
42edcd8ebb13fafbb168f12591d7518ce0611fec to before 738bf9f32f2aa0d1bb92ce9ca5c2476cb5710459738bf9f32f2aa0d1bb92ce9ca5c2476cb5710459
8badd8f3d618fb864bda1b041c815f7925c35861 to before d6b2be35cf8f0b8ab84e7a934cfb0d91de0a3c17d6b2be35cf8f0b8ab84e7a934cfb0d91de0a3c17
8fa0d9823fbef04aaab517e7ea0f4b17976f1502 to before fea75958a081ed337ceb578396174039694c48dffea75958a081ed337ceb578396174039694c48df
Not specified64530644f9b37ebb76ca14aeb83a77597a0034b7
Not specified42edcd8ebb13fafbb168f12591d7518ce0611fec
Not specified2bd630eef8b7c8ae1e90e8fd43ba12fbc7e256ba
Also listed as affected (7)
  • v4.14.2
  • v5.0.0-rc.13
  • v4.14.1
  • v5.0.0-rc.12
  • v5.0.0-rc.11
  • v5.0.0-rc.10
  • v4.14.0

Description

Improper Authentication vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an attacker to be signed in as another user by linking an OAuth2 identity to an account that is not theirs.

AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.UserResolver.resolve/3 matches an existing account using the register action's upsert_identity keys, then gates linking the incoming provider identity to it on email_trusted?/2, which reads only the provider's email_verified boolean and never compares the provider's email value with the matched account's email. That gate assumes the account was matched by its email field, so under any other upsert_identity it is vacuous and an attacker presenting their own verified email is attached to, and issued a session for, an account matched on some other attribute. The same unguarded gate applies in OAuth2.SignInPreparation on the registration_enabled? false path, where the account is matched by the sign-in action's read filter instead. The upsert also rewrites the matched account's email to the attacker's address, so later account recovery reaches the attacker rather than the owner.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.14.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.10 before 5.0.0-rc.14.

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