CVE-2026-86522

medium

Description

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.

References

https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-86522

https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-wg7g-r393-vr3g

https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/fd19358bf0eee53ef13dcf17cc499bd4fb393981

https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/57c7cc3236bef0fa9da19cb315414f216488866d

https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/3954f277929712755aef57a4a3a821688f121316

https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-86522.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-17

Updated: 2026-09-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.3

Vector: 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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00525