CVE-2026-78223
Token revocation record built from unverified JWT claims in AshAuthentication
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.9 Medium
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 11, 2026
Description
Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows a caller of the token revocation action to neutralise a revocation or write arbitrary rows into the token resource.
AshAuthentication.TokenResource.RevokeTokenChange.change/3 reads the :token argument and decodes it with AshAuthentication.Jwt.peek/1, which delegates to Joken.peek_claims/1 and performs no signature check, unlike Jwt.verify/4. The jti, exp and sub claims it returns are written straight onto the revocation record, guarded only by byte_size(token) > 0. Because expires_at derives from the attacker-chosen exp, a forged copy of a genuine token that keeps the real jti but backdates exp yields a revocation row that is already expired: expunge_expired removes it and the genuine token passes revoked? again. Arbitrary jti and sub values can be inserted the same way.
This issue affects ash_authentication: from 0.2.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 6.9 Medium | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | EEF |
Weaknesses
- CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ash_authenticationteam-alembic |
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ash_authenticationteam-alembic |
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References
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-mfwg-5cpf-px58relatedvendor-advisory
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-78223related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-78223related
- Introducing commit a939dde in team-alembic/ash_authenticationrelated
- Fix commit 344cebb in team-alembic/ash_authenticationpatch
- Fix commit eb86353 in team-alembic/ash_authenticationpatch
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