CVE-2026-86522
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.
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Affected products
1- Range: from 4.2.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14
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References
6- cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-86522.htmlnvd
- github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/3954f277929712755aef57a4a3a821688f121316nvd
- github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/57c7cc3236bef0fa9da19cb315414f216488866dnvd
- github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/fd19358bf0eee53ef13dcf17cc499bd4fb393981nvd
- github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-wg7g-r393-vr3gnvd
- osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-86522nvd
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