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EEF-CVE-2026-81637

Replayable OAuth2 CSRF state retained after a failed callback in AshAuthentication

Quick fix

EEF-CVE-2026-81637 — ash_authentication: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

mix deps.update ash_authentication

Details

## Summary

Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an attacker who obtains a victim's OAuth2 `state` value to replay the callback and sign that victim into an attacker-controlled account.

`AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.Plug.callback/2` clears the stored `session_params` through a rebinding step inside its `with` chain, `conn <- delete_session(conn, session_key)`. Elixir evaluates the `else` block in the scope enclosing the `with`, so every failure path (the provider returning `?error=access_denied`, an invalid code, a token-exchange error, or a registration or sign-in failure) reaches `store_authentication_result/2` holding the original connection and the session entry is never removed. The value the module's own comment describes as protection against a CSRF-related attack is therefore consumed only when authentication succeeds, and survives a cancelled or failed attempt until the next request phase or session expiry.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 0.6.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.

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Affected packages

Hex/ash_authentication
Introduced in: 0.6.0Fixed in: 4.15.0
Fixmix deps.update ash_authentication

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