CVE-2026-82761 PUBLISHED

Magic link single-use tokens replayable via TOCTOU race in AshAuthentication

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 31.08.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an attacker holding a leaked magic link to replay its single-use token and authenticate as the target subject. A magic link configured with single_use_token?, which is the default, is meant to be redeemable exactly once, but nothing serialises the token's validity check against its consumption, so concurrent redemptions of one token all succeed and each yields a full user token.

Sign-in verifies the JWT with Jwt.verify/4 and revokes it only afterwards: AshAuthentication.Strategy.MagicLink.SignInPreparation revokes in a Query.after_action callback, and AshAuthentication.Strategy.MagicLink.SignInChange in an after_transaction hook that runs once the sign-in has already committed. AshAuthentication.TokenResource.Actions.revoke/3 writes the revocation as an upsert, so a concurrent duplicate revocation silently succeeds instead of conflicting and no request ever loses the race.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 3.9.0 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:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.1

Product Status

Vendor team-alembic
Product ash_authentication
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3.9.0 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 cf3d227ef25912cf1b0c5fa80f20001f5c46a102 to * (excl.)

Credits

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

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-29 Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions