CVE-2026-76949
Vulnérabilité critique dans ash_authentication (team-alembic)
Description
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in team-alembic ash_authentication allows an attacker who can plant a remember-me cookie in a victim's browser to replace that victim's authenticated session with one for the attacker's own account. AshAuthentication.Plug.Helpers.sign_in_using_remember_me/3 skips re-authenticating an already-signed-in visitor by checking the session for "<subject_name>_token", but store_in_session/2 writes that key only when require_token_presence_for_authentication? is enabled and otherwise writes the bare subject name. At the default setting the guard therefore reads a key that is never written, its already-signed-in branch is unreachable, and the remember-me sign-in runs on every request through the per-request browser pipeline plug. A planted remember-me cookie is consequently honoured even for a visitor holding a live authenticated session, so whatever the victim enters afterwards lands in data the attacker controls. The read path in authenticate_resource_from_session/4 selects the key correctly, so the guard and the reader disagree about which key holds the session. This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.10.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.
Gravité et risque d'exploitation
CVE-2026-76949 obtient un score CVSS de 9.1/10, soit une gravité critique. Selon le modèle EPSS, la probabilité qu'elle soit exploitée dans les 30 prochains jours est de 0.77 %, ce qui la place devant 54.9 % des CVE référencées.
Que faire ?
- Vérifiez si ash_authentication (versions <5.0.0-rc.14, 3d3de314692558d06ec13945f857f00514e95a8c, <*, 4.10.0, <4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.0) est présent sur votre parc.
- Appliquez le correctif ou la version corrigée indiqués dans les références de l'éditeur.
- À défaut de correctif, limitez l'exposition (filtrage réseau, désactivation du composant).
- Automatisez la détection : les agents CVE Heimdall (gratuits, open source) corrèlent l'inventaire de vos serveurs avec la base CVE.
Références
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-hh34-374j-pfr5
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-76949.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-76949
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/3d3de314692558d06ec13945f857f00514e95a8c
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/b9568a53b438247238b1c5a4f49c8d84650f4bba
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/9a34136b844abe179da1075067cf2835c64dcc12
