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

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.09.1 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NEEF

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ash_authenticationteam-alembic
  • 4.14.0 to before 4.15.0Affected
  • 5.0.0-rc.10 to before 5.0.0-rc.14Affected
ash_authenticationteam-alembic
  • 64530644f9b37ebb76ca14aeb83a77597a0034b7 and laterAffectedfrom 738bf9f32f2aa0d1bb92ce9ca5c2476cb5710459Not affectedfrom 2bd630eef8b7c8ae1e90e8fd43ba12fbc7e256baNot affected
  • 42edcd8ebb13fafbb168f12591d7518ce0611fec and laterAffectedfrom 738bf9f32f2aa0d1bb92ce9ca5c2476cb5710459Not affectedfrom 2bd630eef8b7c8ae1e90e8fd43ba12fbc7e256baNot affected

References

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