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CVE-2026-88952 Details

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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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-287Improper AuthenticationEEF

Affected Products

ProductVersions
team-alembic AshAuthentication
>= 4.14.0, <= 4.14.2 (semver)
>= 5.0.0-rc.10, <= 5.0.0-rc.13 (semver)

CPE

  • No CPEs found in CPE dictionary for this product.

Remediation

  • Upgrade: 4.15.0moderate effort
  • Upgrade: 5.0.0-rc.14moderate effort
  • Mitigation:low effort

    Set `trust_email_verified?` to `false` on the affected strategy.

  • Mitigation:low effort

    Key the register action's `upsert_identity` and the sign-in action's read filter on the email attribute.

Change History

2 change records found show changes


QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-88952
NVD Published Date:
Sep 17, 2026
NVD Last Modified:
Sep 18, 2026
Source:
EEF
CVE-2026-88952 Details - Not Deferred