CVE-2026-86688: high-severity vulnerability in team-alembic ash_authentication
Session id is not renewed on authentication in ash_authentication, allowing session fixation
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.4epss 0.7%
Session Fixation vulnerability in team-alembic ash_authentication allows an attacker who can plant a session identifier in a victim's browser to hold an authenticated session once that victim signs in.
AshAuthentication.Plug.Helpers.store_in_session/2 writes the authenticated subject into the existing session with Plug.Conn.put_session/3 and never calls Plug.Conn.configure_session(renew: true), so the identifier the visitor arrived with carries into their authenticated session. Every authentication event reaches this one function: the default success/4 injected by AshAuthentication.Phoenix.Controller.__using__/1, the AuthController emitted by mix ash_authentication_phoenix.install, and remember-me auto-login. AshAuthentication.Phoenix.Plug.store_in_session/2 is a defdelegate to it. Logout does not close the window either, because clear_session/2 ends with Plug.Conn.clear_session/1, which clears session contents but leaves the identifier intact, so a planted identifier survives a logout-then-login cycle.
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
team-alembic · ash_authenticationRelated 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-2026-86522MEDIUMLog injection via an unescaped password reset identity in AshAuthenticationEPSS 0.7%
References
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-86688.htmlhttps://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/3e1d452cbf1564e87f5f97be882b66fe25af7cfahttps://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/872db454405ecad4fcdabd9ff3d8755d1d6a69aehttps://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/a939dde9b917c072cdf10c4b0913a9886a4b0231https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-v577-944g-7h3xhttps://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-86688