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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-88952 EEF-CVE-2026-88952EUVD-2026-81619GHSA-wc6x-276q-jrf9

OAuth2 sign-in attached to an existing account without an email comparison in AshAuthentication

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

Description

Improper Authentication vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an attacker to be signed in as another user by linking an OAuth2 identity to an account that is not theirs.

AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.UserResolver.resolve/3 matches an existing account using the register action's upsert_identity keys, then gates linking the incoming provider identity to it on email_trusted?/2, which reads only the provider's email_verified boolean and never compares the provider's email value with the matched account's email. That gate assumes the account was matched by its email field, so under any other upsert_identity it is vacuous and an attacker presenting their own verified email is attached to, and issued a session for, an account matched on some other attribute. The same unguarded gate applies in OAuth2.SignInPreparation on the registration_enabled? false path, where the account is matched by the sign-in action's read filter instead. The upsert also rewrites the matched account's email to the attacker's address, so later account recovery reaches the attacker rather than the owner.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.14.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.10 before 5.0.0-rc.14.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
team-alembic ash_authentication 4.14.0 – < 4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.10 – < 5.0.0-rc.14 4.15.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex ash_authentication >= 4.14.0, < 4.15.0 · >= 5.0.0-rc.10, < 5.0.0-rc.14 4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.14 EEF-CVE-2026-88952

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