CVE-2026-86698
Severity not reportedInsufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in OAuth token issuance in hexpm hexpm allows a user whose organization membership or session has ended to keep r…
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: 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.
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-2026-86698.html 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/commit/650faa03af511e74c1b3b49ec12d35666b6984c4 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/commit/db58cf3a86c7639708ef52ff86de0b4f938e6360 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/security/advisories/GHSA-vmw7-7g2w-gw2f 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-86698 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/security/advisories/GHSA-vmw7-7g2w-gw2f 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
