CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-78223

MediumCVSS 6.9
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Vulnerability in AshAuthentication library (versions from 0.2.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14) concerning improper verification of cryptographic signature. The token revocation mechanism does not verify signature, allowing an attacker to neutralize revocations or write arbitrary rows into the token resource.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can forge a token and re-activate revoked tokens or insert malicious data into the token database. This may lead to unauthorized access or privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Upgrade AshAuthentication to version 4.15.0 or later (for 4.x) or 5.0.0-rc.14 or later (for 5.x). Additionally, check for any signs of exploitation.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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