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_authenticationDetails
## 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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References
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-3vcj-gxx8-3p44[ADVISORY]
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-81637.html[WEB]
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/c5f589058e04239263f50a1430eb17ea6d5dd1a2[WEB]
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/bd4352303bc9d72d007f6818775267585a4bcc2f[FIX]
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/d7f939cd02bd618bcaa304631846fa75ffc419d7[FIX]
- https://hex.pm/packages/ash_authentication[PACKAGE]