CVE-2026-117656
Severity not reportedAcceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data vulnerability in the Sign in with Apple strategy in pow-auth Assent allows an unauthenticated remote…
Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data vulnerability in the Sign in with Apple strategy in pow-auth Assent allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to impersonate another user via the user parameter of the authorization callback. Apple posts the user's name to the callback endpoint in a user form parameter that the browser submits and the client controls. Assent.Strategy.Apple.callback/2 in lib/assent/strategies/apple.ex decodes that parameter, and fetch_user/2 merges it over the claims of the verified ID token, so the unverified map wins. An attacker who completes a Sign in with Apple login with their own Apple ID and edits the user parameter can replace sub, email, and any other claim. Applications that look up, link, or authorize accounts by the returned subject or email then act on the attacker's values. This issue affects assent: from 0.1.25 before 0.3.2.
Affected products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-117656.html 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- https://github.com/pow-auth/assent/commit/18898bde0296152165ae470078490e5798329b1b 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- https://github.com/pow-auth/assent/commit/a2d331e8c51376d6c0b04a81aad31e0b4d4d64a3 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- https://github.com/pow-auth/assent/security/advisories/GHSA-9fr5-g44g-9526 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-117656 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
