CVE-2026-78223

Token revocation record built from unverified JWT claims in AshAuthentication

Published Sep 17, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows a caller of the token revocation action to neutralise a revocation or write arbitrary rows into the token resource.

CVSS severityUnavailable
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EPSS probability0.44%
Next 30 days · Oct 19, 2026
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
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Summary

What happened

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows a caller of the token revocation action to neutralise a revocation or write arbitrary rows into the token resource.

AshAuthentication.TokenResource.RevokeTokenChange.change/3 reads the :token argument and decodes it with AshAuthentication.Jwt.peek/1, which delegates to Joken.peek_claims/1 and performs no signature check, unlike Jwt.verify/4. The jti, exp and sub claims it returns are written straight onto the revocation record, guarded only by byte_size(token) > 0. Because expires_at derives from the attacker-chosen exp, a forged copy of a genuine token that keeps the real jti but backdates exp yields a revocation row that is already expired: expunge_expired removes it and the genuine token passes revoked? again. Arbitrary jti and sub values can be inserted the same way.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 0.2.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.

The record

CVE
CVE-2026-78223
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Sep 17, 2026
Vendor
Alembic
Product
Ash Authentication
Classifications
Unavailable
Attack vector
Unavailable
Privileges
Unavailable

Timeline

How it unfolded

  1. Sep 17, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
  2. Sep 17, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.

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  1. Affected versionversion=0.2.0 <4.15.0
  2. Affected versionversion=5.0.0-rc.0 <5.0.0-rc.14
  3. Affected versionversion=a939dde9b917c072cdf10c4b0913a9886a4b0231 <* changes=[{"at":"344cebb12faf68e648d3283394073ba0c0f78459","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"eb86353fe5a547c5ff5fd9af0e2c212518c31c9b","status":"unaffected"}]

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What is affected?

Alembic · Ash Authenticationversion=0.2.0 <4.15.0; version=5.0.0-rc.0 <5.0.0-rc.14; version=a939dde9b917c072cdf10c4b0913a9886a4b0231 <* changes=[{"at":"344cebb12faf68e648d3283394073ba0c0f78459","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"eb86353fe5a547c5ff5fd9af0e2c212518c31c9b","status":"unaffected"}]

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Sep 22, 2026Sep 28, 2026
Latest reporting daySep 28, 2026
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Known exploitationUnconfirmed
Public exploitUnconfirmed

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