CVE-2026-88952
OAuth2 sign-in attached to an existing account without an email comparison in AshAuthentication
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 9.1 Critical
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 16, 2026
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 9.1 Critical | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | EEF |
Weaknesses
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ash_authenticationteam-alembic |
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ash_authenticationteam-alembic |
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References
- GitHub Advisoryrelatedvendor-advisory
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-88952related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-88952related
- Introducing commit 6453064 in team-alembic/ash_authenticationrelated
- Introducing commit 42edcd8 in team-alembic/ash_authenticationrelated
- Fix commit 738bf9f in team-alembic/ash_authenticationpatch
- Fix commit 2bd630e in team-alembic/ash_authenticationpatch
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