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CVE-2026-76949
Published:September 17, 2026
Updated:September 22, 2026
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.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v4.10.0 <v4.15.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v4.15.0
https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v5.0.0-rc.0 <v5.0.0-rc.14
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v5.0.0-rc.14
ash_authentication (HEX):
Affected version(s) >=5.0.0-rc.0 <5.0.0-rc.14
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 5.0.0-rc.14
ash_authentication (HEX):
Affected version(s) >=4.10.0 <4.15.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.15.0
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
9.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
9.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
EPSS
Base Score:
0.49