CVE-2026-88952

OAuth2 sign-in attached to an existing account without an email comparison in AshAuthentication

Published Sep 17, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026

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.

CVSS severityUnavailable
Unscored
EPSS probability0.75%
Next 30 days · Oct 19, 2026
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
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Summary

What happened

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.

The record

CVE
CVE-2026-88952
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Sep 17, 2026
Vendor
Alembic
Product
Ash Authentication
Classifications
Unavailable
Attack vector
Unavailable
Privileges
Unavailable

Timeline

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

Exploitability

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  1. Affected versionversion=4.14.0 <4.15.0
  2. Affected versionversion=42edcd8ebb13fafbb168f12591d7518ce0611fec <* changes=[{"at":"738bf9f32f2aa0d1bb92ce9ca5c2476cb5710459","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"2bd630eef8b7c8ae1e90e8fd43ba12fbc7e256ba","status":"unaffected"}]
  3. Affected versionversion=5.0.0-rc.10 <5.0.0-rc.14
  4. Affected versionversion=64530644f9b37ebb76ca14aeb83a77597a0034b7 <* changes=[{"at":"738bf9f32f2aa0d1bb92ce9ca5c2476cb5710459","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"2bd630eef8b7c8ae1e90e8fd43ba12fbc7e256ba","status":"unaffected"}]

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What is affected?

Alembic · Ash Authenticationversion=4.14.0 <4.15.0; version=42edcd8ebb13fafbb168f12591d7518ce0611fec <* changes=[{"at":"738bf9f32f2aa0d1bb92ce9ca5c2476cb5710459","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"2bd630eef8b7c8ae1e90e8fd43ba12fbc7e256ba","status":"unaffected"}]; version=5.0.0-rc.10 <5.0.0-rc.14; version=64530644f9b37ebb76ca14aeb83a77597a0034b7 <* changes=[{"at":"738bf9f32f2aa0d1bb92ce9ca5c2476cb5710459","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"2bd630eef8b7c8ae1e90e8fd43ba12fbc7e256ba","status":"unaffected"}]

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Latest reporting daySep 28, 2026
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Known exploitationUnconfirmed
Public exploitUnconfirmed

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