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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-86522 EEF-CVE-2026-86522EUVD-2026-81482GHSA-wg7g-r393-vr3g

Log injection via an unescaped password reset identity in AshAuthentication

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

Description

Improper Output Neutralization for Logs vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an unauthenticated attacker to forge application log entries by submitting a password reset identity containing newlines or control characters.

AshAuthentication.Strategy.Password.RequestPasswordReset.run/3 interpolates the identity argument, the email or username taken straight from the reset request, into its Logger.warning/1 heredocs without escaping, truncating or type-restricting it. The resource logged beside it is passed through inspect/1, which would have neutralized the value. A newline in the identity therefore ends the log record, and everything after it is written as a line of its own, so an attacker chooses the severity tag and the content of entries that appear to have come from the application.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.2.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
team-alembic ash_authentication 4.2.0 – < 4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.0 – < 5.0.0-rc.14 4.15.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex ash_authentication >= 4.2.0, < 4.15.0 · >= 5.0.0-rc.0, < 5.0.0-rc.14 4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.14 EEF-CVE-2026-86522

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