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AshAuthentication CVE-2026-76949

| EUVDEUVD-2026-82578 CRITICAL
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing (CWE-290)
2026-09-17 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
9.1
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
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Vendor (6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db) PRIMARY
9.1 CRITICAL
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
vuln.today AI
6.8 MEDIUM

AC:H and UI:R because the attacker must plant a cookie via a separate injection channel and the victim must then interact/enter data; C:H/I:H as victim data flows into the attacker-controlled account, A:N.

3.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db).

CVSS VectorVendor: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
X

Lifecycle Timeline

5
POC Analysis Generated
Sep 17, 2026 - 23:21 vuln.today
Patch available
Sep 17, 2026 - 23:04 EUVD
Metadata Corrected
Sep 17, 2026 - 22:40 vuln.today
tag: Elixir added
Analysis Generated
Sep 17, 2026 - 22:38 vuln.today
CVE Published
Sep 17, 2026 - 22:17 cve.org
CRITICAL 9.1

DescriptionCVE.org

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in team-alembic ash_authentication allows an attacker who can plant a remember-me cookie in a victim's browser to replace that victim's authenticated session with one for the attacker's own account.

AshAuthentication.Plug.Helpers.sign_in_using_remember_me/3 skips re-authenticating an already-signed-in visitor by checking the session for "<subject_name>_token", but store_in_session/2 writes that key only when require_token_presence_for_authentication? is enabled and otherwise writes the bare subject name. At the default setting the guard therefore reads a key that is never written, its already-signed-in branch is unreachable, and the remember-me sign-in runs on every request through the per-request browser pipeline plug. A planted remember-me cookie is consequently honoured even for a visitor holding a live authenticated session, so whatever the victim enters afterwards lands in data the attacker controls. The read path in authenticate_resource_from_session/4 selects the key correctly, so the guard and the reader disagree about which key holds the session.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.10.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.

AnalysisAI

Session-swapping authentication bypass in the Elixir library AshAuthentication (versions 4.10.0 before 4.15.0 and 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14) allows an attacker who can plant a remember-me cookie in a victim's browser to displace the victim's live authenticated session with one belonging to the attacker's own account, so anything the victim enters afterwards is captured under attacker-controlled state. The root cause is a guard/reader key mismatch: AshAuthentication.Plug.Helpers.sign_in_using_remember_me/3 checks the session for a '<subject_name>_token' key, but store_in_session/2 only writes that key when require_token_presence_for_authentication? …

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Vulnerability AssessmentAI

Exploitation Requires ash_authentication 4.10.0-<4.15.0 or 5.0.0-rc.0-<5.0.0-rc.14 running the per-request browser pipeline plug at the DEFAULT token setting (require_token_presence_for_authentication? … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment.
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Remediation Upgrade AshAuthentication to the fixed releases: 4.15.0 for the 4.x line, or 5.0.0-rc.14 for the 5.0.0 prerelease line - these correspond to the upstream fix commits referenced in GHSA-hh34-374j-pfr5 (https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-hh34-374j-pfr5), with the advisory index at https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-76949.html and the OSV entry at https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-76949; vendor-released patch versions are 4.15.0 and 5.0.0-rc.14. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report.

Recommended ActionAI

Within 24 hours, inventory every application that depends on the AshAuthentication Elixir library and confirm the exact version in use, flagging any deployment on 4.10.0 up to but not including 4.15.0, or 5.0.0-rc.0 up to but not including 5.0.0-rc.14, as exposed; where remember-me is not business-required, disable the remember-me feature and its per-request browser pipeline plug entirely, and where it is required, enable require_token_presence_for_authentication? …

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