Description
Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows a caller of the token revocation action to neutralise a revocation or write arbitrary rows into the token resource.
AshAuthentication.TokenResource.RevokeTokenChange.change/3 reads the :token argument and decodes it with AshAuthentication.Jwt.peek/1, which delegates to Joken.peek_claims/1 and performs no signature check, unlike Jwt.verify/4. The jti, exp and sub claims it returns are written straight onto the revocation record, guarded only by byte_size(token) > 0. Because expires_at derives from the attacker-chosen exp, a forged copy of a genuine token that keeps the real jti but backdates exp yields a revocation row that is already expired: expunge_expired removes it and the genuine token passes revoked? again. Arbitrary jti and sub values can be inserted the same way.
This issue affects ash_authentication: from 0.2.0 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 | 0.2.0 – < 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 | >= 0.2.0, < 4.15.0 · >= 5.0.0-rc.0, < 5.0.0-rc.14 | 4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.14 | EEF-CVE-2026-78223 |
References
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-mfwg-5cpf-px58 related vendor-advisory
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-78223 related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-78223 related
- Introducing commit a939dde in team-alembic/ash_authentication related
- Fix commit 344cebb in team-alembic/ash_authentication patch
- Fix commit eb86353 in team-alembic/ash_authentication patch