CVE-2026-76949

Critical

Description

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.1
Exploit probability—
ProductTeam-alembic Ash Authentication
PublishedSep 17, 2026
First seenSep 17, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-290CWE-290

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
team-alembic ash_authentication4.10.0 ≤ v < 4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.0 ≤ v < 5.0.0-rc.14, 3d3de314692558d06ec13945f857f00514e95a8c4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.14

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