CVE-2026-81637 PUBLISHED

Replayable OAuth2 CSRF state retained after a failed callback in AshAuthentication

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

Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an attacker who obtains a victim's OAuth2 state value to replay the callback and sign that victim into an attacker-controlled account.

AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.Plug.callback/2 clears the stored session_params through a rebinding step inside its with chain, conn <- delete_session(conn, session_key). Elixir evaluates the else block in the scope enclosing the with, so every failure path (the provider returning ?error=access_denied, an invalid code, a token-exchange error, or a registration or sign-in failure) reaches store_authentication_result/2 holding the original connection and the session entry is never removed. The value the module's own comment describes as protection against a CSRF-related attack is therefore consumed only when authentication succeeds, and survives a cancelled or failed attempt until the next request phase or session expiry.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 0.6.0 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:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 2.3

Product Status

Vendor team-alembic
Product ash_authentication
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.6.0 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 c5f589058e04239263f50a1430eb17ea6d5dd1a2 to * (excl.)

Credits

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

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-613 Insufficient Session Expiration CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-60 Reusing Session IDs (aka Session Replay)