EEF-CVE-2026-78223
Token revocation record built from unverified JWT claims in AshAuthentication
Quick fix
EEF-CVE-2026-78223 — ash_authentication: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
mix deps.update ash_authenticationDetails
## Summary
Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows a caller of the token revocation action to neutralise a revocation or write arbitrary rows into the token resource.
`AshAuthentication.TokenResource.RevokeTokenChange.change/3` reads the `:token` argument and decodes it with `AshAuthentication.Jwt.peek/1`, which delegates to `Joken.peek_claims/1` and performs no signature check, unlike `Jwt.verify/4`. The `jti`, `exp` and `sub` claims it returns are written straight onto the revocation record, guarded only by `byte_size(token) > 0`. Because `expires_at` derives from the attacker-chosen `exp`, a forged copy of a genuine token that keeps the real `jti` but backdates `exp` yields a revocation row that is already expired: `expunge_expired` removes it and the genuine token passes `revoked?` again. Arbitrary `jti` and `sub` values can be inserted the same way.
This issue affects ash_authentication: from 0.2.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.
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References
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-mfwg-5cpf-px58[ADVISORY]
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-78223.html[WEB]
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/a939dde9b917c072cdf10c4b0913a9886a4b0231[WEB]
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/344cebb12faf68e648d3283394073ba0c0f78459[FIX]
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/eb86353fe5a547c5ff5fd9af0e2c212518c31c9b[FIX]
- https://hex.pm/packages/ash_authentication[PACKAGE]