CVE-2026-118505
— UNSCOREDpublic exploit availablePublished 2026-11-03 · Updated 2026-11-03
AI analysis for this CVE has not been generated yet. Raw NVD data is shown below.
NVD description
Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in team-alembic ash_authentication allows an unauthenticated attacker to guess passwords and one-time passwords without limit. The password, magic link and OTP strategies enforce brute_force_strategy by adding a preparation only to the actions they generate. When the resource defines one of those actions itself, the strategy uses it as written and nothing checked that it carried the preparation, so the setting compiled and applied no limit. The generators produce exactly this: mix ash_authentication.install writes sign_in_with_password, request_password_reset_token and request_magic_link, mix ash_authentication.upgrade then adds brute_force_strategy to those strategies, and mix ash_authentication.add_strategy.otp writes its OTP actions without the preparation. Separately, with registration_enabled? true the OTP sign-in is a create action, which preparations do not run on, so brute_force_strategy {:preparation, module} never applied to it. This issue affects ash_authentication: from 5.0.0-rc.4 before 5.0.0-rc.16.
Weaknesses
CWE-307
Public exploit & PoC references
All references
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-118505.html
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/7117b5da5b73ee4cdb372e4adfbaff409b527125
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/800caa0d4a5bee1f28ad427f4c12fab72003a577
- https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-55gf-3263-4r39
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-118505
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