CVE-2026-78223

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.96.9
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This medium-severity CVE scores 6.9 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.3%, top 75% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
6.9EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 6.9Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows a caller of the token revocation action to neutralise a revocation or write arbitrary rows into the token resource.

AshAuthentication.TokenResource.RevokeTokenChange.change/3 reads the :token argument and decodes it with AshAuthentication.Jwt.peek/1, which delegates to Joken.peek_claims/1 and performs no signature check, unlike Jwt.verify/4. The jti, exp and sub claims it returns are written straight onto the revocation record, guarded only by byte_size(token) > 0. Because expires_at derives from the attacker-chosen exp, a forged copy of a genuine token that keeps the real jti but backdates exp yields a revocation row that is already expired: expunge_expired removes it and the genuine token passes revoked? again. Arbitrary jti and sub values can be inserted the same way.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 0.2.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.

CVSS v3
6.9
EG Score
6.9(medium)
EG Risk
46(Track)
EG Risk 46/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity69% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
25%
KEV
Not listed

Published

September 17, 2026

Last Modified

September 18, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Sep 17, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github, github_commit.
github_commit Patch Available

commit eb86353fe5a5 (team-alembic/ash_authentication)

Patch available: team-alembic/ash_authentication v5.0.0-rc.14 (contains commit eb86353fe5a5)

https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/eb86353fe5a547c5ff5fd9af0e2c212518c31c9b
github_commit Patch Available

commit 344cebb12faf (team-alembic/ash_authentication)

Patch available: team-alembic/ash_authentication v4.15.0 (contains commit 344cebb12faf)

https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/344cebb12faf68e648d3283394073ba0c0f78459
github_commit Patch Available

commit a939dde9b917 (team-alembic/ash_authentication)

Patch available: team-alembic/ash_authentication v4.9.7 (contains commit a939dde9b917)

https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/a939dde9b917c072cdf10c4b0913a9886a4b0231
generic

OSV - Open Source Vulnerabilities

https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-78223
github Patch Available

Revocation records are built from unverified JWT claims, letting a token holder defeat revocation of that token · Advisory · team-alembic/ash_authentication · GitHub

https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-mfwg-5cpf-px58

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 7× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-09-19 19:17 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-09-17 19:26 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-09-17 18:45 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-17 14:24 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-09-17 13:20 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-17 13:19 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-78223?
CVE-2026-78223 is a medium vulnerability published on September 17, 2026. Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows a caller of the token revocation action to neutralise a revocation or write arbitrary rows into the token resource. AshAuthentication.TokenResource.RevokeTokenChange.change/3 reads the :token…
When was CVE-2026-78223 disclosed?
CVE-2026-78223 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 17, 2026, with the most recent update on September 18, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-78223 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-78223 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 74.9% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-78223?
CVE-2026-78223 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.9 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-78223?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-78223, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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