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Description

Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an attacker who obtains a victim's OAuth2 state value to replay the callback and sign that victim into an attacker-controlled account.

AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.Plug.callback/2 clears the stored session_params through a rebinding step inside its with chain, conn <- delete_session(conn, session_key). Elixir evaluates the else block in the scope enclosing the with, so every failure path (the provider returning ?error=access_denied, an invalid code, a token-exchange error, or a registration or sign-in failure) reaches store_authentication_result/2 holding the original connection and the session entry is never removed. The value the module's own comment describes as protection against a CSRF-related attack is therefore consumed only when authentication succeeds, and survives a cancelled or failed attempt until the next request phase or session expiry.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 0.6.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-613 · Insufficient Session Expiration in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-60 · Reusing Session IDs (aka Session Replay) MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / ash_authentication Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

0.6.0 < 4.15.0 affected
5.0 series 5.0.0-rc.0 < 5.0.0-rc.14 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:team-alembic:ash_authentication:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.Plug'
source files lib/ash_authentication/strategies/oauth2/plug.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.Plug':callback/2 · 'Elixir.AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.Plug':request/2

Affected — GitHub / team-alembic/ash_authentication Repository ↗

c5f5890 and up affected
bd43523 not affected
d7f939c not affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:team-alembic:ash_authentication:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.Plug'
source files lib/ash_authentication/strategies/oauth2/plug.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.Plug':callback/2 · 'Elixir.AshAuthentication.Strategy.OAuth2.Plug':request/2

References

Credits

Peter Ullrich Reporter
Jonatan Männchen / EEF Analyst
James Harton Remediation developer

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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