CVE-2026-86522

published 2026-09-17

CVE-2026-86522: Improper Output Neutralization for Logs vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an unauthenticated attacker to forge application log entries by…

Priority P3 46 medium 6.3 CVSS 4.0

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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.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
team-alembic	ash_authentication	>= 3954f277929712755aef57a4a3a821688f121316 < *	*
team-alembic	ash_authentication	>= 4.2.0 < 4.15.0	4.15.0
team-alembic	ash_authentication	>= 5.0.0-rc.0 < 5.0.0-rc.14	5.0.0-rc.14

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