CVE-2026-86698

low

Description

Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in OAuth token issuance in hexpm hexpm allows a user whose organization membership or session has ended to keep reading the organization's private packages and their documentation tarballs via a retained refresh token. generate_refresh_token/4 in lib/hexpm/oauth/jwt.ex signs the refresh token with the same iss, aud and scope claims as the access token, so it carries the same repository:<org> scopes. The CDN service that serves private repositories verifies the signature and time claims and then authorizes from the scope claim, with no database lookup and no way to tell the two token kinds apart. Removing a member or revoking a session therefore takes effect at the CDN only when the 30 day refresh token expires, instead of after the 30 minute access token lifetime. Access is read-only and limited to organizations the account belonged to when the token was granted. This issue affects hex.pm: from 2025-10-10 before 2026-09-22.

References

https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-86698

https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/security/advisories/GHSA-vmw7-7g2w-gw2f

https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/commit/db58cf3a86c7639708ef52ff86de0b4f938e6360

https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/commit/650faa03af511e74c1b3b49ec12d35666b6984c4

https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-86698.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

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: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 2.3

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00427