CVE-2026-49757 PUBLISHED

OAuth2/OIDC account takeover in AshAuthentication via email-based user matching

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 01.06.2026 Published: 15.06.2026 Updated: 15.06.2026

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows account takeover of local users via OAuth2/OIDC sign-in.

AshAuthentication's OAuth2 and OIDC family strategies matched the local user by email address (an upsert on the email field, or a user-defined sign-in filter) rather than by the OpenID Connect iss/sub claim combination. Per OpenID Connect Core §5.7, only iss/sub uniquely and stably identifies an end-user; other claims, including email, MUST NOT be used as unique identifiers.

A provider login presenting a victim's email, including an unverified email, a reused email, or an account with email_verified: false, resolved to and signed in as the victim's existing local account. An unauthenticated attacker who can register an account on any accepted OAuth provider with the victim's email (or who benefits from provider-side email reuse or reclamation) obtains the victim's full local privileges.

The fix resolves users by the (strategy, sub) identity stored in a user identity resource, and only links a new sub to an existing local account by email when the provider's email_verified claim is trusted (trust_email_verified?).

This issue affects ash_authentication from 0.1.0 before 4.14.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.10.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.2

Product Status

Vendor team-alembic
Product ash_authentication
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.1.0 to 4.14.0 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.0.0-rc.0 to 5.0.0-rc.10 (excl.)
Vendor team-alembic
Product ash_authentication
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from c5f589058e04239263f50a1430eb17ea6d5dd1a2 to * (excl.)

Credits

  • Jarl André Hübenthal finder
  • James Harton remediation developer
  • Jonatan Männchen / EEF analyst

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-21 Exploitation of Trusted Identifiers