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CVE-2026-117656NVD
Vulnerability Summary
Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data vulnerability in the Sign in with Apple strategy in pow-auth Assent allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to impersonate another user via the user parameter of the authorization callback.
Apple posts the user's name to the callback endpoint in a user form parameter that the browser submits and the client controls. Assent.Strategy.Apple.callback/2 in lib/assent/strategies/apple.ex decodes that parameter, and fetch_user/2 merges it over the claims of the verified ID token, so the unverified map wins. An attacker who completes a Sign in with Apple login with their own Apple ID and edits the user parameter can replace sub, email, and any other claim. Applications that look up, link, or authorize accounts by the returned subject or email then act on the attacker's values.
This issue affects assent: from 0.1.25 before 0.3.2.
Apple posts the user's name to the callback endpoint in a user form parameter that the browser submits and the client controls. Assent.Strategy.Apple.callback/2 in lib/assent/strategies/apple.ex decodes that parameter, and fetch_user/2 merges it over the claims of the verified ID token, so the unverified map wins. An attacker who completes a Sign in with Apple login with their own Apple ID and edits the user parameter can replace sub, email, and any other claim. Applications that look up, link, or authorize accounts by the returned subject or email then act on the attacker's values.
This issue affects assent: from 0.1.25 before 0.3.2.
CVSS v4.0 Base Metrics — Score 9.3 (CRITICAL)
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Attack RequirementsNone
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
- pow-auth assent >= 0.1.25 and < 0.3.2
- pow-auth assent >= a2d331e8c51376d6c0b04a81aad31e0b4d4d64a3 and < 18898bde0296152165ae470078490e5798329b1b
- pow-auth assent 0.3.2
- pow-auth assent 18898bde0296152165ae470078490e5798329b1b
External References
- https://github.com/pow-auth/assent/security/advisories/GHSA-9fr5-g44g-9526
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-117656.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-117656
- https://github.com/pow-auth/assent/commit/a2d331e8c51376d6c0b04a81aad31e0b4d4d64a3
- https://github.com/pow-auth/assent/commit/18898bde0296152165ae470078490e5798329b1b