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Description

Improper Authentication vulnerability in ash-project ash_authentication_oauth2_server allows an unauthenticated attacker to register OAuth clients even when Dynamic Client Registration is gated by an initial access token.

resolve_secret/3 in AshAuthentication.Oauth2Server (reached through __resolve_secret__!) treated any return other than {:ok, _} or :error from a configured {module, function, args} or 2-arity-function secret provider as a valid secret, wrapping nil, false, or "" as {:ok, value}. When the initial_access_token resolves to such an empty value, POST /oauth/register compares the presented bearer token against it and the comparison passes with no token supplied, so registration is open although it was configured closed. The same fail-open affected other resolved secrets such as signing_secret.

This issue affects ash_authentication_oauth2_server: from 0.1.0 before 0.3.1.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-115 · Authentication Bypass MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / ash_authentication_oauth2_server Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

0.1.0 < 0.3.1 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_authentication_oauth2_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshAuthentication.Oauth2Server'
source files lib/ash_authentication/oauth2_server.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshAuthentication.Oauth2Server':__resolve_secret__!/3

Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash_authentication_oauth2_server Repository ↗

855b578 < 30a8710 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_authentication_oauth2_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshAuthentication.Oauth2Server'
source files lib/ash_authentication/oauth2_server.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshAuthentication.Oauth2Server':__resolve_secret__!/3

Configurations

Reachable only when the server configures an initial_access_token (so Dynamic Client Registration is meant to require one) and the configured secret provider returns an empty value (nil, false, or "") or an {:error, _} for it, rather than a non-empty binary.

References

Credits

Peter Ullrich Finder Reporter
Zach Daniel / Ash Project Remediation developer
Jonatan Männchen / EEF Coordinator

CVSS breakdown

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