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"cveId": "CVE-2026-55735",
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"state": "PUBLISHED",
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"dateReserved": "2026-06-17T10:44:34.365Z",
"datePublished": "2026-08-01T18:46:05.234Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-08-03T19:30:07.608Z"
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"value": "<p>The application must route a caller-supplied token into <tt>Guardian.revoke/3</tt> (for example a logout or session-revocation endpoint) and use a token module whose <tt>revoke</tt> / <tt>on_revoke</tt> callback mutates state keyed by the token claims (a whitelist that deletes by <tt>jti</tt> or a blacklist that inserts by <tt>jti</tt>, such as a GuardianDb-style store). With the default no-op <tt>on_revoke</tt> callback, no session state is changed and the issue is not exploitable.</p>"
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"value": "The application must route a caller-supplied token into Guardian.revoke/3 (for example a logout or session-revocation endpoint) and use a token module whose revoke / on_revoke callback mutates state keyed by the token claims (a whitelist that deletes by jti or a blacklist that inserts by jti, such as a GuardianDb-style store). With the default no-op on_revoke callback, no session state is changed and the issue is not exploitable."
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"value": "Peter Ullrich"
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"type": "remediation developer",
"value": "Yordis Prieto"
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"value": "<p>Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in ueberauth guardian allows an unauthenticated attacker to revoke a victim's session with a forged token.</p><p><tt>Guardian.revoke/3</tt> in <tt>lib/guardian.ex</tt> decodes the supplied token with <tt>peek/1</tt>, which performs no signature verification (it only base64-decodes the JWT header and payload). The resulting unverified claims are forwarded directly to the configured token module's <tt>revoke</tt> callback and the implementation's <tt>on_revoke</tt> callback, a state-mutating sink. The sibling operations <tt>refresh/2</tt> and <tt>exchange/4</tt> both call <tt>decode_and_verify</tt> first, so the signature is checked before anything acts on the claims; <tt>revoke/3</tt> is the only state-mutating path that acts on claims without verifying the signature.</p><p>An attacker who knows or guesses a victim's identifying claim values (<tt>jti</tt>, <tt>sub</tt>) can forge a JWT carrying those claims, sign it with an arbitrary key, and submit it to any endpoint that funnels a caller-supplied token into <tt>Guardian.revoke/3</tt> (the standard logout / session-revocation pattern). When the token module mutates state keyed by the claims (whitelist deletion or blacklist insertion, for example a GuardianDb-style store), the victim's legitimate session is evicted. This is an unauthenticated session-revocation denial of service; the attacker never needs the signing secret.</p><p>This issue affects guardian: from 1.0.0 before 2.4.1.</p>"
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"value": "Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in ueberauth guardian allows an unauthenticated attacker to revoke a victim's session with a forged token.\n\nGuardian.revoke/3 in lib/guardian.ex decodes the supplied token with peek/1, which performs no signature verification (it only base64-decodes the JWT header and payload). The resulting unverified claims are forwarded directly to the configured token module's revoke callback and the implementation's on_revoke callback, a state-mutating sink. The sibling operations refresh/2 and exchange/4 both call decode_and_verify first, so the signature is checked before anything acts on the claims; revoke/3 is the only state-mutating path that acts on claims without verifying the signature.\n\nAn attacker who knows or guesses a victim's identifying claim values (jti, sub) can forge a JWT carrying those claims, sign it with an arbitrary key, and submit it to any endpoint that funnels a caller-supplied token into Guardian.revoke/3 (the standard logout / session-revocation pattern). When the token module mutates state keyed by the claims (whitelist deletion or blacklist insertion, for example a GuardianDb-style store), the victim's legitimate session is evicted. This is an unauthenticated session-revocation denial of service; the attacker never needs the signing secret.\n\nThis issue affects guardian: from 1.0.0 before 2.4.1."
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