EEF-CVE-2026-85500

Summary

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 requireconfirmedwith 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

requireconfirmedwith is enforced in two places, and neither holds in every

configuration. signinwith_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

selectbydefault?: 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.