CVE-2026-53516CWE-287CWE-345

Better Auth: Account takeover via OAuth auto-link to unverified pre-registered email

High · published July 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
20.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Better Auth is an authentication and authorization library for TypeScript. Prior to 1.6.11, Better Auth's OAuth callback auto-link gate in handleOAuthUserInfo accepts implicit account linking when the OAuth provider asserts email_verified: true without requiring the local user row's emailVerified field to also be true, allowing an attacker who pre-registers a victim email through /sign-up/email to bind the victim's OAuth identity to the attacker's account. The same primitive affects one-tap, and emailAndPassword.requireEmailVerification: true does not mitigate the link-time verification change. This issue is fixed in version 1.6.11.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00289 · 20.4th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-287 · Improper Authentication; CWE-345 · Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
Published
2026-07-15T17:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 JUL 17:13Z
    Better Auth: Account takeover via OAuth auto-link to unverified pre-registered email
    cvelistv5