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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2026-78223 EEF-CVE-2026-78223EUVD-2026-81483GHSA-mfwg-5cpf-px58

Token revocation record built from unverified JWT claims in AshAuthentication

Published Sep 17, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
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

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
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

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