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Description
Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an unconfirmed user to obtain a session, defeating a mandatory email confirmation requirement.
AshAuthentication.Strategy.Password.Actions.check_user/2 decides whether the attribute named by require_confirmed_with is set using a bare is_nil(Map.get(user, value)). When that attribute is not selected on the loaded record Map.get/2 returns %Ash.NotLoaded{}, and when a field policy denies it for the current actor it returns %Ash.ForbiddenField{}. Neither is nil, so the rejection branch is skipped and sign-i
require_confirmed_with is enforced in two places, and neither holds in every
configuration. sign_in_with_token and register are checked only inside
AshAuthentication.Strategy.Password.Actions, not on the action itself, so any caller
that invokes the action directly skips the check. An API layer such as AshGraphql or
AshJsonApi invokes the action directly, so this applies to the default configuration.
Where a check does run it compares the confirmation attribute against nil. That
attribute holds %Ash.NotLoaded{} or %Ash.ForbiddenField{} when it sets
select_by_default?: false, when an API layer narrows the read's select, or when a
field policy hides it from the sign-in actor. Neither struct is nil, so those
configurations read every user as confirmed.
This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.3.8 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-305
·
Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-115
·
Authentication Bypass
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / ash_authentication Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / team-alembic/ash_authentication Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
References
Credits
CVSS breakdown
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