Description
Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an attacker who obtains a victim's OAuth2 state value to replay the callback and sign that victim into an attacker-controlled account.
AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.Plug.callback/2 clears the stored session_params through a rebinding step inside its with chain, conn <- delete_session(conn, session_key). Elixir evaluates the else block in the scope enclosing the with, so every failure path (the provider returning ?error=access_denied, an invalid code, a token-exchange error, or a registration or sign-in failure) reaches store_authentication_result/2 holding the original connection and the session entry is never removed. The value the module's own comment describes as protection against a CSRF-related attack is therefore consumed only when authentication succeeds, and survives a cancelled or failed attempt until the next request phase or session expiry.
This issue affects ash_authentication: from 0.6.0 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 | 0.6.0 – < 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 | >= 0.6.0, < 4.15.0 · >= 5.0.0-rc.0, < 5.0.0-rc.14 | 4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.14 | EEF-CVE-2026-81637 |
References
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-3vcj-gxx8-3p44 vendor-advisory related
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-81637 related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-81637 related
- Introducing commit c5f5890 in team-alembic/ash_authentication related
- Fix commit bd43523 in team-alembic/ash_authentication patch
- Fix commit d7f939c in team-alembic/ash_authentication patch