CVE-2026-86522
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
Summary
Improper Output Neutralization for Logs vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an unauthenticated attacker to forge application log entries by submitting a password reset identity containing newlines or control characters.
AshAuthentication.Strategy.Password.RequestPasswordReset.run/3 interpolates the identity argument, the email or username taken straight from the reset request, into its Logger.warning/1 heredocs without escaping, truncating or type-restricting it. The resource logged beside it is passed through inspect/1, which would have neutralized the value. A newline in the identity therefore ends the log record, and everything after it is written as a line of its own, so an attacker chooses the severity tag and the content of entries that appear to have come from the application.
This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.2.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| team-alembic | ash_authentication | 4.2.0 < 4.15.0 | affected |
| team-alembic | ash_authentication | 5.0.0-rc.0 < 5.0.0-rc.14 | affected |
| team-alembic | ash_authentication | 3954f277929712755aef57a4a3a821688f121316 < * | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-117: CWE-117 Improper Output Neutralization for Logs
ADP Enrichment
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
- SSVC:
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical Impact: partial
References
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-wg7g-r393-vr3g
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-86522.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-86522
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/3954f277929712755aef57a4a3a821688f121316
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/fd19358bf0eee53ef13dcf17cc499bd4fb393981
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/57c7cc3236bef0fa9da19cb315414f216488866d
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