CVE-2026-117656 PUBLISHED

Unverified Sign in with Apple callback parameter can override verified ID token claims

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 30.10.2026 Published: 30.10.2026 Updated: 30.10.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.3

Product Status

Vendor pow-auth
Product assent
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.1.25 to 0.3.2 (excl.)
Vendor pow-auth
Product assent
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from a2d331e8c51376d6c0b04a81aad31e0b4d4d64a3 to 18898bde0296152165ae470078490e5798329b1b (excl.)

Workarounds

Remove the user parameter from the callback parameters before you pass them to Assent.Strategy.Apple.callback/2, for example with Map.delete(params, "user"). Without the parameter, decode_user_params/2 yields an empty map and the verified ID token claims pass through unchanged. The user's name is then unavailable, because Apple delivers it only through this parameter.

Credits

  • Iain finder
  • Iain reporter
  • Dan Schultzer remediation developer
  • Richard Ash remediation verifier
  • Jonatan Männchen / EEF coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing CWE
  • CWE-349 Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data CWE

Impacts

  • An attacker with any Apple ID can sign in to an application that uses the Apple strategy as any other user whose Apple subject or email they know. Account lookup, account linking, and email-based access control then act on the attacker-chosen identity.