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"state": "PUBLISHED",
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"dateReserved": "2026-09-17T00:30:01.485Z",
"datePublished": "2026-09-17T21:58:00.853Z",
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"value": "<p>Exploitation for account takeover requires a server-side session store (ETS, Mnesia, Redis or a database), where the cookie carries a stable session identifier, and a position from which the attacker can plant that cookie in the victim's browser: cookie tossing from a sibling subdomain, an HTTP host without HSTS, or a shared or kiosk browser.</p>\n<p>Phoenix defaults to the signed cookie store, and neither package's installer changes it. Under that store the authenticated session lives in the re-signed cookie delivered only to the victim, so a planted pre-authentication copy does not become an authenticated session. Attacker-planted session contents, such as a <code>return_to</code> value, still survive into the authenticated session there.</p>"
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"value": "Exploitation for account takeover requires a server-side session store (ETS, Mnesia, Redis or a database), where the cookie carries a stable session identifier, and a position from which the attacker can plant that cookie in the victim's browser: cookie tossing from a sibling subdomain, an HTTP host without HSTS, or a shared or kiosk browser.\n\nPhoenix defaults to the signed cookie store, and neither package's installer changes it. Under that store the authenticated session lives in the re-signed cookie delivered only to the victim, so a planted pre-authentication copy does not become an authenticated session. Attacker-planted session contents, such as a `return_to` value, still survive into the authenticated session there."
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"value": "<p>Session Fixation vulnerability in team-alembic ash_authentication allows an attacker who can plant a session identifier in a victim's browser to hold an authenticated session once that victim signs in.</p>\n<p><code>AshAuthentication.Plug.Helpers.store_in_session/2</code> writes the authenticated subject into the existing session with <code>Plug.Conn.put_session/3</code> and never calls <code>Plug.Conn.configure_session(renew: true)</code>, so the identifier the visitor arrived with carries into their authenticated session. Every authentication event reaches this one function: the default <code>success/4</code> injected by <code>AshAuthentication.Phoenix.Controller.__using__/1</code>, the <code>AuthController</code> emitted by <code>mix ash_authentication_phoenix.install</code>, and remember-me auto-login. <code>AshAuthentication.Phoenix.Plug.store_in_session/2</code> is a <code>defdelegate</code> to it. Logout does not close the window either, because <code>clear_session/2</code> ends with <code>Plug.Conn.clear_session/1</code>, which clears session contents but leaves the identifier intact, so a planted identifier survives a logout-then-login cycle.</p>\n<p>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.</p>"
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"value": "Session Fixation vulnerability in team-alembic ash_authentication allows an attacker who can plant a session identifier in a victim's browser to hold an authenticated session once that victim signs in.\n\n`AshAuthentication.Plug.Helpers.store_in_session/2` writes the authenticated subject into the existing session with `Plug.Conn.put_session/3` and never calls `Plug.Conn.configure_session(renew: true)`, so the identifier the visitor arrived with carries into their authenticated session. Every authentication event reaches this one function: the default `success/4` injected by `AshAuthentication.Phoenix.Controller.__using__/1`, the `AuthController` emitted by `mix ash_authentication_phoenix.install`, and remember-me auto-login. `AshAuthentication.Phoenix.Plug.store_in_session/2` is a `defdelegate` to it. Logout does not close the window either, because `clear_session/2` ends with `Plug.Conn.clear_session/1`, which clears session contents but leaves the identifier intact, so a planted identifier survives a logout-then-login cycle.\n\nThis 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."
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