EEF-CVE-2026-85500 CVE-2026-85500 GHSA-fc47-6pgw-wh22
`require_confirmed_with` is not enforced on the action and fails open on an unreadable attribute in AshAuthentication
- Severity
- 0.0 / 10
- Unknown · CVSS 4.0
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 0.77%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 55.59% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-305 Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
- Fix
5.0.0-rc.14- Upgrade ash_authentication to this version or later
Description
Summary
Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an unconfirmed user to obtain a session, defeating a mandatory email confirmation requirement.
AshAuthentication.Strategy.Password.Actions.check_user/2 decides whether the attribute named by require_confirmed_with is set using a bare is_nil(Map.get(user, value)). When that attribute is not selected on the loaded record Map.get/2 returns %Ash.NotLoaded{}, and when a field policy denies it for the current actor it returns %Ash.ForbiddenField{}. Neither is nil, so the rejection branch is skipped and sign-i
require_confirmed_with is enforced in two places, and neither holds in every
configuration. sign_in_with_token and register are checked only inside
AshAuthentication.Strategy.Password.Actions, not on the action itself, so any caller
that invokes the action directly skips the check. An API layer such as AshGraphql or
AshJsonApi invokes the action directly, so this applies to the default configuration.
Where a check does run it compares the confirmation attribute against nil. That
attribute holds %Ash.NotLoaded{} or %Ash.ForbiddenField{} when it sets
select_by_default?: false, when an API layer narrows the read's select, or when a
field policy hides it from the sign-in actor. Neither struct is nil, so those
configurations read every user as confirmed.
This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.3.8 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.
Affected versions
Hex
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| ash_authentication | >= 4.3.8, < 4.15.0>= 5.0.0-rc.0, < 5.0.0-rc.14 |
4.15.05.0.0-rc.14 |
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
ash_authentication Hex → 5.0.0-rc.14
- mix
{:ash_authentication, "~> 5.0.0-rc.14"} # then: mix deps.update ash_authentication
Severity breakdown
CVSS 4.0 0.0
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
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
- High
- Integrity (vulnerable system)
- High
- Availability (vulnerable system)
- None
- Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
- None
- Integrity (subsequent systems)
- None
- Availability (subsequent systems)
- None
Weakness
CWE-305: Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
The authentication algorithm is sound, but the implemented mechanism can be bypassed as the result of a separate weakness that is primary to the authentication error.
References
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Fixes and patches
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Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| EEF-CVE-2026-86688 Session id is not renewed on authentication in ash_authentication, allowing session fixation | Not rated yet | Also affects ash_authentication |
| EEF-CVE-2026-76949 Remember-me sign-in guard reads a session key that is never written in ash_authentication, allowing session replacement | Not rated yet | Also affects ash_authentication |
| EEF-CVE-2026-91039 dynamic_oidc identities are not namespaced by connection in ash_authentication, allowing cross-connection account takeover | Not rated yet | Also affects ash_authentication |
| EEF-CVE-2026-88952 OAuth2 sign-in attached to an existing account without an email comparison in AshAuthentication | Not rated yet | Also affects ash_authentication |
| EEF-CVE-2026-86533 Revoked session accepted because the session jti is never checked in AshAuthentication and AshAuthentication Phoenix | Not rated yet | Also affects ash_authentication |
| EEF-CVE-2026-81632 Single-use sign-in token placed in a redirect query string in AshAuthenticationPhoenix | Not rated yet | Also affects ash_authentication |
| EEF-CVE-2026-80218 Sign-in token minted for one resource accepted by another in AshAuthentication | Not rated yet | Also affects ash_authentication |
| EEF-CVE-2026-78223 Token revocation record built from unverified JWT claims in AshAuthentication | Not rated yet | Also affects ash_authentication |
Credits: James Harton, Jonatan Männchen / EEF, Peter Ullrich
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