EEF-CVE-2026-49757
OAuth2/OIDC account takeover in AshAuthentication via email-based user matching
Details
## Summary
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows account takeover of local users via OAuth2/OIDC sign-in.
AshAuthentication's OAuth2 and OIDC family strategies matched the local user by email address (an upsert on the email field, or a user-defined sign-in filter) rather than by the OpenID Connect iss/sub claim combination. Per OpenID Connect Core §5.7, only iss/sub uniquely and stably identifies an end-user; other claims, including email, MUST NOT be used as unique identifiers.
A provider login presenting a victim's email, including an unverified email, a reused email, or an account with email\_verified: false, resolved to and signed in as the victim's existing local account. An unauthenticated attacker who can register an account on any accepted OAuth provider with the victim's email (or who benefits from provider-side email reuse or reclamation) obtains the victim's full local privileges.
The fix resolves users by the (strategy, sub) identity stored in a user identity resource, and only links a new sub to an existing local account by email when the provider's email\_verified claim is trusted (trust\_email\_verified?).
This issue affects ash\_authentication from 0.1.0 before 4.14.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.10.
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Affected packages
0.1.0 Fixed in: 4.14.0 mix deps.update ash_authentication References
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-777c-2fxx-qr28 [ADVISORY]
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-49757.html [WEB]
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/728b8d28c1b5f465fa1116ef044a815300fc733d [FIX]
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/64530644f9b37ebb76ca14aeb83a77597a0034b7 [FIX]
- https://hex.pm/packages/ash_authentication [PACKAGE]