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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-82758 EEF-CVE-2026-82758EUVD-2026-72540GHSA-fxc6-vp68-87pw

ash_authentication_oauth2_server treats an empty resolved secret as valid, opening the gated Dynamic Client Registration endpoint

Published Sep 7, 2026 · Updated Sep 8, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Improper Authentication vulnerability in ash-project ash_authentication_oauth2_server allows an unauthenticated attacker to register OAuth clients even when Dynamic Client Registration is gated by an initial access token.

resolve_secret/3 in AshAuthentication.Oauth2Server (reached through __resolve_secret__!) treated any return other than {:ok, _} or :error from a configured {module, function, args} or 2-arity-function secret provider as a valid secret, wrapping nil, false, or "" as {:ok, value}. When the initial_access_token resolves to such an empty value, POST /oauth/register compares the presented bearer token against it and the comparison passes with no token supplied, so registration is open although it was configured closed. The same fail-open affected other resolved secrets such as signing_secret.

This issue affects ash_authentication_oauth2_server: from 0.1.0 before 0.3.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ash-project ash_authentication_oauth2_server 0.1.0 – < 0.3.1 0.3.1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex ash_authentication_oauth2_server >= 0.1.0, < 0.3.1 0.3.1 EEF-CVE-2026-82758

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