Vulnerability advisory
EEF-CVE-2026-82761
Magic link single-use tokens replayable via TOCTOU race in AshAuthentication
Also known as CVE-2026-82761GHSA-23gr-vcp4-r27q
- CVSS 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected versions
Repository
| Affected commits | Fixed by commit |
|---|---|
| GIT github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication ↗ | |
| cf3d227ef25912cf1b0c5fa80f20001f5c46a102 to before 18dfdb36c14aa6a61df8572bce2d5ec36b1d9840 | 18dfdb36c14aa6a61df8572bce2d5ec36b1d9840 |
| Not specified | 9ef6864b8833d3b795427a7b8dc518a4997d41ab |
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Description
Summary
Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an attacker holding a leaked magic link to replay its single-use token and authenticate as the target subject. A magic link configured with single_use_token?, which is the default, is meant to be redeemable exactly once, but nothing serialises the token's validity check against its consumption, so concurrent redemptions of one token all succeed and each yields a full user token.
Sign-in verifies the JWT with Jwt.verify/4 and revokes it only afterwards: AshAuthentication.Strategy.MagicLink.SignInPreparation revokes in a Query.after_action callback, and AshAuthentication.Strategy.MagicLink.SignInChange in an after_transaction hook that runs once the sign-in has already committed. AshAuthentication.TokenResource.Actions.revoke/3 writes the revocation as an upsert, so a concurrent duplicate revocation silently succeeds instead of conflicting and no request ever loses the race.
This issue affects ash_authentication: from 3.9.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.
References
- Advisorygithub.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-23gr-vcp4-r27q ↗
- Webcna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-82761.html ↗
- Webgithub.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/cf3d227ef25912cf1b0c5fa80f20001f5c46a102 ↗
- Fixgithub.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/18dfdb36c14aa6a61df8572bce2d5ec36b1d9840 ↗
- Fixgithub.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/9ef6864b8833d3b795427a7b8dc518a4997d41ab ↗
- Packagehex.pm/packages/ash_authentication ↗