Missing ID token claim validation in ueberauth_apple allows account takeover
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-290.
Summary
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in ueberauth ueberauth_apple allows account takeover via unvalidated ID token claims. The Ueberauth.Strategy.Apple.Token.payload/2 function verifies the JWT signature of the callback id_token against Apple's JWKS but does not validate any registered claims. The iss, aud, exp, and iat claims are read from the token and passed on to Ueberauth.Strategy.Apple.handle_callback!/1, which derives the logged-in user's uid and email directly from the unvalidated sub claim. An attacker who obtains any Apple-signed ID token bearing the victim's sub (via a captured expired token, or via an ID token issued to a sibling client in the same Apple developer team) can replay it against the vulnerable callback and be authenticated as the victim. The absent exp check makes stolen tokens usable indefinitely, and the absent aud check enables cross-application account takeover across clients that share an Apple developer team. This issue affects ueberauth_apple: from 0.1.0 before 0.6.2.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA ueberauth_apple (ueberauth) Fixed in 0.6.2
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-55954
- 2026-10-25 EPSS moved to the below the 50th percentile
References
More ueberauth vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-40233 Guardian.revoke/3 acts on unverified token claims, allowing forged-token session revocation CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
- TI-2026-40232 guardian atom exhaustion in Guardian.Permissions.encode_permissions!/1 CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
- TI-2026-40231 Atom-table exhaustion denial of service in Guardian permissions AtomEncoding via unbounded atom creation CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
- TI-2026-39667 Atom-table exhaustion denial of service in Guardian via unbounded atom creation from binary keys CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
Sources
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