CRITICAL 9.1 NVD
CVE-2026-91039
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in team-alembic ash_authentication allows an attacker who operates one identity-provider connection of a dynamic
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in team-alembic ash_authentication allows an attacker who operates one identity-provider connection of a dynamic_oidc strategy to be signed in as a local user established through a different connection.
The strategy is meant to keep each connection in its own identity namespace by writing every UserIdentity row's strategy field as "<name>/<connection_id>", but that namespacing never takes effect. __connection_id__ is populated only on the ephemeral runtime struct built per request in dynamic_oidc/plug.ex, and DynamicOidc.IdentityChange.change/3 re-fetches the strategy from the compile-time DSL through Info.strategy_for_action, yielding the persisted struct whose __connection_id__ is its defstruct default of nil. OAuth2.identity_strategy_name/1 therefore falls back to the bare strategy name for both the identity write and the reads in oauth2/user_resolver.ex and oauth2/sign_in_preparation.ex. Since the identity resource's unique key is (uid, strategy), one row exists per sub across every connection, and the identity-match branch runs before any email check. Neither strategy handles iss, so nothing else distinguishes the issuers: OpenID Connect Core section 5.7 makes sub unique only within an issuer, so two connections numbering subjects independently share one subject space.
This issue affects ash_authentication: from 5.0.0-rc.10 before 5.0.0-rc.14.
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-91039.html
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/64530644f9b37ebb76ca14aeb83a7759
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/73ad16e452670bbf843550a13361bd41
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-73j9-m294-fvv9
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-91039
This critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.1 was published on 2026-09-17 via NVD.
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CVE Disclosed2026-09-17 · -1 days ago
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