CRITICAL 9.1 NVD
CVE-2026-76949
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 t
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.
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-76949.html
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/3d3de314692558d06ec13945f857f005
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/9a34136b844abe179da1075067cf2835
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/b9568a53b438247238b1c5a4f49c8d84
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-hh34-374j-pfr5
This critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.1 was published on 2026-09-17 via NVD.
Risk Timeline
CVE Disclosed2026-09-17 · -1 days ago
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