9.1
CRITICAL CVSS 4.0
CVE-2026-88952
OAuth2 sign-in attached to an existing account without an email comparison in AshAuthentication
Description

Improper Authentication vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an attacker to be signed in as another user by linking an OAuth2 identity to an account that is not theirs. AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.UserResolver.resolve/3 matches an existing account using the register action's upsert_identity keys, then gates linking the incoming provider identity to it on email_trusted?/2, which reads only the provider's email_verified boolean and never compares the provider's email value with the matched account's email. That gate assumes the account was matched by its email field, so under any other upsert_identity it is vacuous and an attacker presenting their own verified email is attached to, and issued a session for, an account matched on some other attribute. The same unguarded gate applies in OAuth2.SignInPreparation on the registration_enabled? false path, where the account is matched by the sign-in action's read filter instead. The upsert also rewrites the matched account's email to the attacker's address, so later account recovery reaches the attacker rather than the owner. This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.14.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.10 before 5.0.0-rc.14.

INFO

Published Date :

Sept. 17, 2026, 3:16 p.m.

Last Modified :

Sept. 18, 2026, 6:16 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

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

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-88952 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Alembic ash_authentication
1 Team-alembic ash_authentication
CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
CVSS 4.0 CRITICAL 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
CVSS 4.0 CRITICAL 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
Solution
Update AshAuthentication to a fixed version to address improper OAuth2 identity linking.
  • Update ash_authentication to version 4.15.0 or later.
  • Update ash_authentication to version 5.0.0-rc.14 or later.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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  • CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Sep. 17, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added SSVC {'id': 'CVE-2026-88952', 'role': 'CISA Coordinator', 'options': [{'exploitation': 'none'}, {'automatable': 'no'}, {'technicalImpact': 'total'}], 'version': '2.0.3', 'timestamp': '2026-09-17T19:32:22.090404Z'}
  • New CVE Received by 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db

    Sep. 17, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Improper Authentication vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an attacker to be signed in as another user by linking an OAuth2 identity to an account that is not theirs. AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.UserResolver.resolve/3 matches an existing account using the register action's upsert_identity keys, then gates linking the incoming provider identity to it on email_trusted?/2, which reads only the provider's email_verified boolean and never compares the provider's email value with the matched account's email. That gate assumes the account was matched by its email field, so under any other upsert_identity it is vacuous and an attacker presenting their own verified email is attached to, and issued a session for, an account matched on some other attribute. The same unguarded gate applies in OAuth2.SignInPreparation on the registration_enabled? false path, where the account is matched by the sign-in action's read filter instead. The upsert also rewrites the matched account's email to the attacker's address, so later account recovery reaches the attacker rather than the owner. This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.14.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.10 before 5.0.0-rc.14.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/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-287
    Added Affected New affected value received. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/88xxx/CVE-2026-88952.json">CVE-2026-88952</a>
    Added Reference https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-88952.html
    Added Reference https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/2bd630eef8b7c8ae1e90e8fd43ba12fbc7e256ba
    Added Reference https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/42edcd8ebb13fafbb168f12591d7518ce0611fec
    Added Reference https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/64530644f9b37ebb76ca14aeb83a77597a0034b7
    Added Reference https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/738bf9f32f2aa0d1bb92ce9ca5c2476cb5710459
    Added Reference https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-wc6x-276q-jrf9
    Added Reference https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-88952
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.