CVE-2026-49757: critical vulnerability in team-alembic ash_authentication
OAuth2/OIDC account takeover in AshAuthentication via email-based user matching
Published
48Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 9.2epss 0.7%
from disclosure to weapon6 days
Published on NVDJun 15
1st PoC+6d
exploitation probability
0.7%top 48% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
team-alembic · ash_authenticationpublic PoCs found — 1
githubgithub.com/Hunt-Benito/ash-authentication-oauth2-oidc-account-takeover-cve-2026-49757-email-based-user-matching★ 0⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
Related CVEs — team-alembic ash_authentication
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-86533CRITICALRevoked session accepted because the session jti is never checked in AshAuthentication and AshAuthentication PhoenixEPSS 0.9%CVE-2026-76949CRITICALRemember-me sign-in guard reads a session key that is never written in ash_authentication, allowing session replacementEPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-85500CRITICAL`require_confirmed_with` is not enforced on the action and fails open on an unreadable attribute in AshAuthenticationEPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-66882LOWReflected XSS in AshAuthentication confirmation and magic link interaction formsEPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-88952CRITICALOAuth2 sign-in attached to an existing account without an email comparison in AshAuthenticationEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-86688HIGHSession id is not renewed on authentication in ash_authentication, allowing session fixationEPSS 0.7%
References
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-49757.htmlhttps://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/64530644f9b37ebb76ca14aeb83a77597a0034b7https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/728b8d28c1b5f465fa1116ef044a815300fc733dhttps://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-777c-2fxx-qr28https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-49757