CVE-2026-82758 PUBLISHED

ash_authentication_oauth2_server treats an empty resolved secret as valid, opening the gated Dynamic Client Registration endpoint

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 31.08.2026 Published: 07.09.2026 Updated: 07.09.2026

Improper Authentication vulnerability in ash-project ash_authentication_oauth2_server allows an unauthenticated attacker to register OAuth clients even when Dynamic Client Registration is gated by an initial access token.

resolve_secret/3 in AshAuthentication.Oauth2Server (reached through resolve_secret!) treated any return other than {:ok, _} or :error from a configured {module, function, args} or 2-arity-function secret provider as a valid secret, wrapping nil, false, or "" as {:ok, value}. When the initial_access_token resolves to such an empty value, POST /oauth/register compares the presented bearer token against it and the comparison passes with no token supplied, so registration is open although it was configured closed. The same fail-open affected other resolved secrets such as signing_secret.

This issue affects ash_authentication_oauth2_server: from 0.1.0 before 0.3.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.3

Product Status

Vendor ash-project
Product ash_authentication_oauth2_server
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.1.0 to 0.3.1 (excl.)
Vendor ash-project
Product ash_authentication_oauth2_server
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 855b578037c5ded18e8a6e60f42e56bde4905fae to 30a87101871775d27d79f9ad6f29eafa4779e118 (excl.)

Affected Configurations

Reachable only when the server configures an initial_access_token (so Dynamic Client Registration is meant to require one) and the configured secret provider returns an empty value (nil, false, or "") or an {:error, _} for it, rather than a non-empty binary.

Credits

  • Peter Ullrich finder
  • Peter Ullrich reporter
  • Zach Daniel / Ash Project remediation developer
  • Jonatan Männchen / EEF coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-115 Authentication Bypass