Account takeover via session account fallback
Published Aug 29, 2026 · Updated Aug 29, 2026
Authentication bypass in Rodauth before 2.46.0 allows remote authenticated users to take over arbitrary accounts through webauthn_login. The webauthn_account_id method used super || account_id, allowing a credential lookup miss to fall back to the current session account identifier instead of binding the credential to the requested account. Exploitation requires the non-default webauthn_login feature and an already_logged_in configuration that does not halt or redirect.
Summary
What happened
Authentication bypass in Rodauth before 2.46.0 allows remote authenticated users to take over arbitrary accounts through webauthn_login. The webauthn_account_id method used super || account_id, allowing a credential lookup miss to fall back to the current session account identifier instead of binding the credential to the requested account. Exploitation requires the non-default webauthn_login feature and an already_logged_in configuration that does not halt or redirect.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-82466
- Published
- Aug 29, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 29, 2026
- Vendor
- Jeremy Evans
- Product
- Rodauth
- Classifications
- CWE-843, CWE-287, T1078
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 29, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 29, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <2.46.0
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