CVE-2026-86522 PUBLISHED

Log injection via an unescaped password reset identity in AshAuthentication

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 07.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

Improper Output Neutralization for Logs vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an unauthenticated attacker to forge application log entries by submitting a password reset identity containing newlines or control characters.

AshAuthentication.Strategy.Password.RequestPasswordReset.run/3 interpolates the identity argument, the email or username taken straight from the reset request, into its Logger.warning/1 heredocs without escaping, truncating or type-restricting it. The resource logged beside it is passed through inspect/1, which would have neutralized the value. A newline in the identity therefore ends the log record, and everything after it is written as a line of its own, so an attacker chooses the severity tag and the content of entries that appear to have come from the application.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.2.0 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:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.3

Product Status

Vendor team-alembic
Product ash_authentication
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4.2.0 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 3954f277929712755aef57a4a3a821688f121316 to * (excl.)

Credits

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

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-117 Improper Output Neutralization for Logs CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-93 Log Injection-Tampering-Forging