GHSA-9r87-mvcw-x35f
Coder vulnerable to OIDC account takeover via email-based user matching and email_verified bypass
Details
### Summary
Two flaws in Coder's OIDC login chained into account takeover: email-based user matching fell back to linking by email without checking for an existing link to a different IdP subject and the `email_verified` claim was only enforced when present as a boolean `false` so an absent or non-boolean claim was treated as verified.
### Impact
An attacker who could authenticate at the configured OIDC provider with an email matching a victim's Coder account could log in as that victim and gain full access to their workspaces, templates and resources. This required OIDC authentication, attacker control of a matching email at the IdP and a victim account not yet linked to a different IdP subject.
### Patches
The fix restricts the email fallback to first-time and legacy linking and defaults `email_verified` to false when the claim is absent or of an unexpected type.
The fix was backported to all supported release lines:
| Release line | Patched version | |---|---| | 2.34 | [v2.34.2](https://github.com/coder/coder/releases/tag/v2.34.2) | | 2.33 | [v2.33.8](https://github.com/coder/coder/releases/tag/v2.33.8) | | 2.32 | [v2.32.7](https://github.com/coder/coder/releases/tag/v2.32.7) | | 2.29 (ESR) | [v2.29.17](https://github.com/coder/coder/releases/tag/v2.29.17) |
### Workarounds
Configure the OIDC provider to disallow self-registration or to require email verification before issuing tokens.
### Resources
- Fix: #25712, #25713
### Credits
Coder would like to thank Anthropic's Security Team (ANT-2026-22450) for independently disclosing this issue!
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Affected packages
2.34.0 Fixed in: 2.34.2 go get github.com/coder/coder/v2@v2.34.2 2.33.0 Fixed in: 2.33.8 go get github.com/coder/coder/v2@v2.33.8 2.30.0 Fixed in: 2.32.7 go get github.com/coder/coder/v2@v2.32.7 0 Fixed in: 2.29.17 go get github.com/coder/coder/v2@v2.29.17