CVE-2026-80218 PUBLISHED

Sign-in token minted for one resource accepted by another in AshAuthentication

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

Improper Authentication vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an attacker holding a sign-in token for one authenticated resource to be signed in as a user of a different resource.

AshAuthentication.Strategy.Password.SignInWithTokenPreparation.extract_primary_keys_from_subject/2 parses the JWT sub claim (for example user?id=1) with URI.parse/1 and keeps only its query string, discarding the path segment that names the subject the token was issued for. Nothing else restores that binding: AshAuthentication.Jwt.verify/3 checks the signature, exp, nbf, jti and the library-version claims, the purpose check only requires sign_in, and the remaining comparison is over primary-key field names, which are identical across resources. The WebAuthn sign-in and remember-me preparations carry copies of the same helper and drop the path in the same way. The magic link sign-in path pins the subject name against the resource and is not affected.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 3.10.5 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:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.6

Product Status

Vendor team-alembic
Product ash_authentication
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3.10.5 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 eca8cadea0f1595ed2c10a0c177b1da9aa9e5269 to * (excl.)

Credits

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

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-151 Identity Spoofing