CVE-2026-91039

dynamic_oidc identities are not namespaced by connection in ash_authentication, allowing cross-connection account takeover

State
Published
Severity
9.1 Critical
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Sep 17, 2026
Reserved
Sep 15, 2026

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Description

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in team-alembic ash_authentication allows an attacker who operates one identity-provider connection of a dynamic_oidc strategy to be signed in as a local user established through a different connection.

The strategy is meant to keep each connection in its own identity namespace by writing every UserIdentity row's strategy field as "<name>/<connection_id>", but that namespacing never takes effect. __connection_id__ is populated only on the ephemeral runtime struct built per request in dynamic_oidc/plug.ex, and DynamicOidc.IdentityChange.change/3 re-fetches the strategy from the compile-time DSL through Info.strategy_for_action, yielding the persisted struct whose __connection_id__ is its defstruct default of nil. OAuth2.identity_strategy_name/1 therefore falls back to the bare strategy name for both the identity write and the reads in oauth2/user_resolver.ex and oauth2/sign_in_preparation.ex. Since the identity resource's unique key is (uid, strategy), one row exists per sub across every connection, and the identity-match branch runs before any email check. Neither strategy handles iss, so nothing else distinguishes the issuers: OpenID Connect Core section 5.7 makes sub unique only within an issuer, so two connections numbering subjects independently share one subject space.

This issue affects ash_authentication: 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

  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ash_authenticationteam-alembic
  • 5.0.0-rc.10 to before 5.0.0-rc.14Affected
ash_authenticationteam-alembic
  • 64530644f9b37ebb76ca14aeb83a77597a0034b7 to before 73ad16e452670bbf843550a13361bd41e72ad964Affected

References

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