8.2
HIGH CVSS 4.0
CVE-2026-55735
Guardian.revoke/3 acts on unverified token claims, allowing forged-token session revocation
Description

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in ueberauth guardian allows an unauthenticated attacker to revoke a victim's session with a forged token. Guardian.revoke/3 in lib/guardian.ex decodes the supplied token with peek/1, which performs no signature verification (it only base64-decodes the JWT header and payload). The resulting unverified claims are forwarded directly to the configured token module's revoke callback and the implementation's on_revoke callback, a state-mutating sink. The sibling operations refresh/2 and exchange/4 both call decode_and_verify first, so the signature is checked before anything acts on the claims; revoke/3 is the only state-mutating path that acts on claims without verifying the signature. An attacker who knows or guesses a victim's identifying claim values (jti, sub) can forge a JWT carrying those claims, sign it with an arbitrary key, and submit it to any endpoint that funnels a caller-supplied token into Guardian.revoke/3 (the standard logout / session-revocation pattern). When the token module mutates state keyed by the claims (whitelist deletion or blacklist insertion, for example a GuardianDb-style store), the victim's legitimate session is evicted. This is an unauthenticated session-revocation denial of service; the attacker never needs the signing secret. This issue affects guardian: from 1.0.0 before 2.4.1.

INFO

Published Date :

Aug. 1, 2026, 7:16 p.m.

Last Modified :

Aug. 1, 2026, 7:16 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
Affected Products

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CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 4.0 HIGH 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
CVSS 4.0 HIGH 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
Solution
Update Guardian to a version that verifies cryptographic signatures before revoking sessions.
  • Update Guardian to version 2.4.1 or later.
  • Ensure all token operations verify signatures.
  • Validate token integrity before processing claims.
  • Implement strict access controls for revocation endpoints.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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  • New CVE Received by 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db

    Aug. 01, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Affected [{'cpes': ['cpe:2.3:a:ueberauth:guardian:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*'], 'repo': 'https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian', 'vendor': 'ueberauth', 'modules': ["'Elixir.Guardian'"], 'product': 'guardian', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '1.0.0', 'lessThan': '2.4.1', 'versionType': 'semver'}], 'packageURL': 'pkg:hex/guardian', 'packageName': 'guardian', 'programFiles': ['lib/guardian.ex'], 'collectionURL': 'https://repo.hex.pm', 'defaultStatus': 'unaffected', 'programRoutines': [{'name': "'Elixir.Guardian':revoke/3"}]}, {'cpes': ['cpe:2.3:a:ueberauth:guardian:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*'], 'repo': 'https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian', 'vendor': 'ueberauth', 'modules': ["'Elixir.Guardian'"], 'product': 'guardian', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': 'd65227145f72b290106c06cecbe42728fbf05fe2', 'lessThan': '2bd7a8c29770d423d855c0a4965caa6c3e486901', 'versionType': 'git'}], 'packageURL': 'pkg:github/ueberauth/guardian', 'packageName': 'ueberauth/guardian', 'programFiles': ['lib/guardian.ex'], 'collectionURL': 'https://github.com', 'defaultStatus': 'unaffected', 'programRoutines': [{'name': "'Elixir.Guardian':revoke/3"}]}]
    Added Description Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in ueberauth guardian allows an unauthenticated attacker to revoke a victim's session with a forged token. Guardian.revoke/3 in lib/guardian.ex decodes the supplied token with peek/1, which performs no signature verification (it only base64-decodes the JWT header and payload). The resulting unverified claims are forwarded directly to the configured token module's revoke callback and the implementation's on_revoke callback, a state-mutating sink. The sibling operations refresh/2 and exchange/4 both call decode_and_verify first, so the signature is checked before anything acts on the claims; revoke/3 is the only state-mutating path that acts on claims without verifying the signature. An attacker who knows or guesses a victim's identifying claim values (jti, sub) can forge a JWT carrying those claims, sign it with an arbitrary key, and submit it to any endpoint that funnels a caller-supplied token into Guardian.revoke/3 (the standard logout / session-revocation pattern). When the token module mutates state keyed by the claims (whitelist deletion or blacklist insertion, for example a GuardianDb-style store), the victim's legitimate session is evicted. This is an unauthenticated session-revocation denial of service; the attacker never needs the signing secret. This issue affects guardian: from 1.0.0 before 2.4.1.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CWE CWE-347
    Added Reference https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-55735.html
    Added Reference https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian/commit/2bd7a8c29770d423d855c0a4965caa6c3e486901
    Added Reference https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian/security/advisories/GHSA-7975-hp3r-5qhv
    Added Reference https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-55735
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