Replayable OAuth2 CSRF state retained after a failed callback in AshAuthentication
## Summary 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.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-81637US | — | — | ||
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 vi… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-81637.htmlWEB
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/bd4352303bc9d72d007f6818775267585a4bcc2fFIX
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/c5f589058e04239263f50a1430eb17ea6d5dd1a2WEB
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/d7f939cd02bd618bcaa304631846fa75ffc419d7FIX
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-3vcj-gxx8-3p44ADVISORY
- https://hex.pm/packages/ash_authenticationPACKAGE
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