CVE-2026-78223 PUBLISHED

Token revocation record built from unverified JWT claims in AshAuthentication

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows a caller of the token revocation action to neutralise a revocation or write arbitrary rows into the token resource.

AshAuthentication.TokenResource.RevokeTokenChange.change/3 reads the :token argument and decodes it with AshAuthentication.Jwt.peek/1, which delegates to Joken.peek_claims/1 and performs no signature check, unlike Jwt.verify/4. The jti, exp and sub claims it returns are written straight onto the revocation record, guarded only by byte_size(token) > 0. Because expires_at derives from the attacker-chosen exp, a forged copy of a genuine token that keeps the real jti but backdates exp yields a revocation row that is already expired: expunge_expired removes it and the genuine token passes revoked? again. Arbitrary jti and sub values can be inserted the same way.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 0.2.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor team-alembic
Product ash_authentication
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.2.0 to 4.15.0 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.0.0-rc.0 to 5.0.0-rc.14 (excl.)
Vendor team-alembic
Product ash_authentication
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from a939dde9b917c072cdf10c4b0913a9886a4b0231 to * (excl.)

Credits

  • Peter Ullrich reporter
  • Jonatan Männchen / EEF analyst
  • James Harton remediation developer

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-475 Signature Spoofing by Improper Validation