Vulnerability · Published Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by EEF
CVE-2026-88952OAuth2 sign-in attached to an existing account without an email comparison in AshAuthentication
Critical 9.1
In plain English
A critical-severity improper authentication in ash_authentication from team-alembic. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 55% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
Improper Authentication vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an attacker to be signed in as another user by linking an OAuth2 identity to an account that is not theirs. AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.UserResolver.resolve/3 matches an existing account using the register action's upsert_identity keys, then gates linking the incoming provider identity to it on email_trusted?/2, which reads only the provider's email_verified boolean and never compares the provider's email value with the matched account's email. That gate assumes the account was matched by its email field, so under any other upsert_identity it is vacuous and an attacker presenting their own verified email is attached to, and issued a session for, an account matched on some other attribute. The same unguarded gate applies in OAuth2.SignInPreparation on the registration_enabled? false path, where the account is matched by the sign-in action's read filter instead. The upsert also rewrites the matched account's email to the attacker's address, so later account recovery reaches the attacker rather than the owner. This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.14.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.10 before 5.0.0-rc.14.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| team-alembic | ash_authentication | 4.14.0 – before 4.15.05.0.0-rc.10 – before 5.0.0-rc.14 |
| team-alembic | ash_authentication | 64530644f9b37ebb76ca14aeb83a77597a0034b7 – before *42edcd8ebb13fafbb168f12591d7518ce0611fec – before * |
Weakness: CWE-287 · Vector: 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
References
- GitHub Advisory related, vendor-advisory
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-88952 related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-88952 related
- Introducing commit 6453064 in team-alembic/ash_authentication related
- Introducing commit 42edcd8 in team-alembic/ash_authentication related
- Fix commit 738bf9f in team-alembic/ash_authentication patch
- Fix commit 2bd630e in team-alembic/ash_authentication patch