CVE-2026-86533
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 : . 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.
What this means for your business
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- Not yet scored
- CVSS v4
- 9.1
- Weakness
- CWE-613
- Assigned by
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-09-18
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-86533.html
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/a3f49f758f013d2ff086dd9c5ef2d94e921711b4
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/e28e911caa9728d76329afdb0fb26742ffe4eeef
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/fcaeb73f76f8f2e9aef8bf637690d2a20dd97596
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-w374-hvrx-66hg
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication_phoenix/commit/0135217e34e621dac79ae3d9559aeee49304b0aa
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication_phoenix/commit/a3253fb4fc7145aeb403537af1c24d3a8d51ffb1
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication_phoenix/commit/f7ab005a2aac09707a25521653c94893d328cc52
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication_phoenix/security/advisories/GHSA-m6x4-4gvp-xwjr
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-86533