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CVE-2026-88952NVD
Vulnerability Summary
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.
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.
CVSS v4.0 Base Metrics — Score 9.1 (CRITICAL)
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Attack RequirementsPresent
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
Confidentiality (Vulnerable System)High
Integrity (Vulnerable System)High
Availability (Vulnerable System)None
Confidentiality (Subsequent System)None
Integrity (Subsequent System)None
Availability (Subsequent System)None
Affected & Patched Versions
- team-alembic ash_authentication >= 4.14.0 and < 4.15.0
- team-alembic ash_authentication >= 5.0.0-rc.10 and < 5.0.0-rc.14
- team-alembic ash_authentication >= 64530644f9b37ebb76ca14aeb83a77597a0034b7 and < *
- team-alembic ash_authentication >= 42edcd8ebb13fafbb168f12591d7518ce0611fec and < *
- team-alembic ash_authentication 4.15.0
- team-alembic ash_authentication 5.0.0-rc.14
- team-alembic ash_authentication *
External References
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-wc6x-276q-jrf9
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-88952.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-88952
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/64530644f9b37ebb76ca14aeb83a77597a0034b7
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/42edcd8ebb13fafbb168f12591d7518ce0611fec
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/738bf9f32f2aa0d1bb92ce9ca5c2476cb5710459
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/2bd630eef8b7c8ae1e90e8fd43ba12fbc7e256ba