Description
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in team-alembic ash_authentication allows an attacker who can plant a remember-me cookie in a victim's browser to replace that victim's authenticated session with one for the attacker's own account.
AshAuthentication.Plug.Helpers.sign_in_using_remember_me/3 skips re-authenticating an already-signed-in visitor by checking the session for "<subject_name>_token", but store_in_session/2 writes that key only when require_token_presence_for_authentication? is enabled and otherwise writes the bare subject name. At the default setting the guard therefore reads a key that is never written, its already-signed-in branch is unreachable, and the remember-me sign-in runs on every request through the per-request browser pipeline plug. A planted remember-me cookie is consequently honoured even for a visitor holding a live authenticated session, so whatever the victim enters afterwards lands in data the attacker controls. The read path in authenticate_resource_from_session/4 selects the key correctly, so the guard and the reader disagree about which key holds the session.
This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.10.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| team-alembic | ash_authentication | 4.10.0 – < 4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.0 – < 5.0.0-rc.14 | 4.15.0 |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hex | ash_authentication | >= 4.10.0, < 4.15.0 · >= 5.0.0-rc.0, < 5.0.0-rc.14 | 4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.14 | EEF-CVE-2026-76949 |
References
- GitHub Advisory related vendor-advisory
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-76949 related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-76949 related
- Introducing commit 3d3de31 in team-alembic/ash_authentication related
- Fix commit b9568a5 in team-alembic/ash_authentication patch
- Fix commit 9a34136 in team-alembic/ash_authentication patch