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High · 8.3 CVE-2026-53516 EUVD-2026-44732GHSA-g38m-r43w-p2q7

Better Auth: Account takeover via OAuth auto-link to unverified pre-registered email

Published Jul 15, 2026 · Updated Jul 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Better Auth is an authentication and authorization library for TypeScript. Prior to 1.6.11, Better Auth's OAuth callback auto-link gate in handleOAuthUserInfo accepts implicit account linking when the OAuth provider asserts email_verified: true without requiring the local user row's emailVerified field to also be true, allowing an attacker who pre-registers a victim email through /sign-up/email to bind the victim's OAuth identity to the attacker's account. The same primitive affects one-tap, and emailAndPassword.requireEmailVerification: true does not mitigate the link-time verification change. This issue is fixed in version 1.6.11.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
better-auth better-auth < 1.6.11 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm better-auth < 1.6.11 1.6.11 GHSA-g38m-r43w-p2q7

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