CVE-2026-86522

Log injection via an unescaped password reset identity in AshAuthentication

MEDIUM
6.3
CVSS Score
Published: September 17, 2026 at 01:09 PM UTC
Updated: September 18, 2026 at 06:29 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAsh Authentication

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Severity
MEDIUM6.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

4.2.0 ≤ v < 4.15.05.0.0-rc.0 ≤ v < 5.0.0-rc.143954f277929712755aef57a4a3a821688f1213164.2.05.0.0-rc.0
Affected range stops below 4.15.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 5.0.0-rc.14, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

6.3MEDIUMEEF
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-117

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