CVE-2026-53516

high

Description

Better Auth is an authentication and authorization library for TypeScript. Prior to 1.6.11, Better Auth's OAuth callback auto-link gate in handleOAuthUserInfo accepts implicit account linking when the OAuth provider asserts email_verified: true without requiring the local user row's emailVerified field to also be true, allowing an attacker who pre-registers a victim email through /sign-up/email to bind the victim's OAuth identity to the attacker's account. The same primitive affects one-tap, and emailAndPassword.requireEmailVerification: true does not mitigate the link-time verification change. This issue is fixed in version 1.6.11.

References

https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/security/advisories/GHSA-g38m-r43w-p2q7

https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/releases/tag/v1.6.11

https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/pull/9578

https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/commit/da7e50beee849c59a2ed1ec6b3a38cc6ab9fb563

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-15

Updated: 2026-07-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00019