CVE-2026-86522CWE-117

CVE-2026-86522

published September 17, 2026

CVSS
6.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
54.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Improper Output Neutralization for Logs vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an unauthenticated attacker to forge application log entries by submitting a password reset identity containing newlines or control characters.

AshAuthentication.Strategy.Password.RequestPasswordReset.run/3 interpolates the identity argument, the email or username taken straight from the reset request, into its Logger.warning/1 heredocs without escaping, truncating or type-restricting it. The resource logged beside it is passed through inspect/1, which would have neutralized the value. A newline in the identity therefore ends the log record, and everything after it is written as a line of its own, so an attacker chooses the severity tag and the content of entries that appear to have come from the application.

This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.2.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
6.3 · NONE
CVSS v4.0
6.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
EPSS
0.00737 · 54.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-117 · Improper Output Neutralization for Logs
Published
2026-09-17T18:17Z
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 SEP 03:54Z
    EPSS moved — → 1%
    epss
  • 17 SEP 13:09Z
    Log injection via an unescaped password reset identity in AshAuthentication
    cvelistv5