CVE-2026-86533: team-alembic ash_authentication · Insufficient Session Expiration
Affects team-alembic ash_authenticationSource CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 9.1 Critical : upgrade to 5.0.0-rc.14 or 4.15.0 as a priority.
Data as of 1 Nov 2026, 22:58 UTC
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 59% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
- Patch
- Available – fixed in 5.0.0-rc.14, 4.15.0, 3.0.0-rc.11 +1
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 17 Sep 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 1 Nov 2026.
What to do
Upgrade ash_authentication to 5.0.0-rc.14 or 4.15.0; ash_authentication_phoenix to 3.0.0-rc.11 or 2.17.4.
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| team-alembicash_authentication | Affected
| Fixed in
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| team-alembicash_authentication | Affected
| Fixed in
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| team-alembicash_authentication | Affected
| Fixed in– |
| team-alembicash_authentication_phoenix | Affected
| Fixed in
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| team-alembicash_authentication_phoenix | Affected
| Fixed in
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| team-alembicash_authentication_phoenix | Affected
| Fixed in– |
CPE configurations (2)
cpe:2.3:a:team-alembic:ash_authentication:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:team-alembic:ash_authentication_phoenix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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AI-suggested
If you cannot patch yet, enabling require_token_presence_for_authentication? is recommended to ensure token revocation is checked.
Description
Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication and AshAuthentication Phoenix allows a revoked session to remain fully authenticated. A resource configured with session_identifier :jti and require_token_presence_for_authentication? disabled stores its session value as <jti>:<subject>. The jti is there so that signing out can revoke that one session. Neither reader consults it: AshAuthentication.Plug.Helpers.authenticate_resource_from_session/4 and AshAuthentication.Phoenix.LiveSession.on_mount/4 both split the value with split_identifier/2, discard the jti and pass the bare subject to AshAuthentication.subject_to_user/3, which reloads the record. The token-presence branch of each function does check its token, calling AshAuthentication.TokenResource.Actions.get_token/3 with the jti and the purpose user. Because the revocation record is never read, neither its revoked state nor its expiry constrains the session, so a session captured before sign-out keeps working. This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.9.1 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14; ash_authentication_phoenix: from 2.10.0 before 2.17.4 and from 3.0.0-rc.0 before 3.0.0-rc.11.
References
- github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication_phoenix/security/advisories/GHSA-m6x4-4gvp-xwjr (opens in a new tab)
- cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-86533.html (opens in a new tab)
- osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-86533 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-w374-hvrx-66hg (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication_phoenix/commit/a3253fb4fc7145aeb403537af1c24d3a8d51ffb1 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication_phoenix/commit/0135217e34e621dac79ae3d9559aeee49304b0aa (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication_phoenix/commit/f7ab005a2aac09707a25521653c94893d328cc52 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/fcaeb73f76f8f2e9aef8bf637690d2a20dd97596 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/a3f49f758f013d2ff086dd9c5ef2d94e921711b4 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/e28e911caa9728d76329afdb0fb26742ffe4eeef (opens in a new tab)