{"dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": {"cveId": "CVE-2026-120999", "assignerOrgId": "6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "EEF", "dateReserved": "2026-11-09T22:47:57.298Z", "datePublished": "2026-11-10T10:43:38.941Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-11-10T10:43:38.941Z"}, "containers": {"cna": {"affected": [{"collectionURL": "https://ghcr.io", "cpes": ["cpe:2.3:a:nerves-hub:nerves_hub_web:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"], "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "modules": ["'Elixir.NervesHub.Accounts'", "'Elixir.NervesHub.Accounts.User'", "'Elixir.NervesHubWeb.SessionController'", "'Elixir.NervesHubWeb.API.UserController'", "'Elixir.NervesHubWeb.Live.Account'", "'Elixir.NervesHubWeb.AccountController'"], "packageName": "nerves-hub/nerves-hub", "packageURL": "pkg:oci/nerves-hub?repository_url=ghcr.io%2Fnerves-hub", "product": "nerves_hub_web", "programFiles": ["lib/nerves_hub/accounts.ex", "lib/nerves_hub/accounts/user.ex", 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"lib/nerves_hub_web/controllers/account_controller.ex"], "programRoutines": [{"name": "'Elixir.NervesHub.Accounts':update_or_create_user_from_ueberauth/1"}, {"name": "'Elixir.NervesHub.Accounts':authenticate/2"}, {"name": "'Elixir.NervesHub.Accounts.User':oauth_changeset/3"}, {"name": "'Elixir.NervesHubWeb.SessionController':confirm/2"}, {"name": "'Elixir.NervesHubWeb.API.UserController':auth/2"}, {"name": "'Elixir.NervesHubWeb.API.UserController':login/2"}], "repo": "https://github.com/nerves-hub/nerves_hub_web", "vendor": "nerves-hub", "versions": [{"lessThan": "54dbf93c3bd323df08223a853c9afcf0b4dbf8e4", "status": "affected", "version": "74982672ab914bd6f37c3bc0e24a06e3474fa030", "versionType": "git"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"cpeMatch": [{"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:nerves-hub:nerves_hub_web:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionEndExcluding": "2.5.3", "versionStartIncluding": "2.3.0", "vulnerable": true}], "negate": false, "operator": "OR"}], "operator": "AND"}], "credits": [{"lang": "en", "type": "remediation developer", "value": "Josh Kalderimis"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "coordinator", "value": "Jonatan M\u00e4nnchen / EEF"}], "dateAssigned": "2026-11-09T23:11:54.000Z", "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [{"base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "<p>Improper Authentication vulnerability in Google sign-in and email confirmation in nerves-hub nerves_hub_web allows an attacker who registers another person's email address to share that person's account once they sign in. <code>NervesHub.Accounts.update_or_create_user_from_ueberauth/1</code> signs a Google user in to any account carrying the same email that is not yet linked to a Google account, links it and marks the email confirmed, without the account's owner ever having proved they own the address. <code>NervesHubWeb.SessionController.confirm/2</code> likewise signs in whoever follows a confirmation link. An attacker registers the address from the sign-up form, changes their own account's email to it, or registers it as an organization admin from an invite link, and keeps the password; when the address's owner signs in with Google or follows the confirmation link, they land in that account.</p>\n<p>The Google path also creates accounts with registrations closed and never checks Google's <code>email_verified</code> claim, and the API's password sign-in in <code>NervesHubWeb.API.UserController</code> issues tokens to accounts whose email was never confirmed. The attacker gains only what the victim is granted afterwards, and nothing on accounts whose owners never use either path.</p>\n<p>This issue affects nerves_hub: from 2.3.0 before 2.5.3.</p>"}, {"base64": false, "type": "text/markdown", "value": "Improper Authentication vulnerability in Google sign-in and email confirmation in nerves-hub nerves_hub_web allows an attacker who registers another person's email address to share that person's account once they sign in. `NervesHub.Accounts.update_or_create_user_from_ueberauth/1` signs a Google user in to any account carrying the same email that is not yet linked to a Google account, links it and marks the email confirmed, without the account's owner ever having proved they own the address. `NervesHubWeb.SessionController.confirm/2` likewise signs in whoever follows a confirmation link. An attacker registers the address from the sign-up form, changes their own account's email to it, or registers it as an organization admin from an invite link, and keeps the password; when the address's owner signs in with Google or follows the confirmation link, they land in that account.\n\nThe Google path also creates accounts with registrations closed and never checks Google's `email_verified` claim, and the API's password sign-in in `NervesHubWeb.API.UserController` issues tokens to accounts whose email was never confirmed. The attacker gains only what the victim is granted afterwards, and nothing on accounts whose owners never use either path.\n\nThis issue affects nerves_hub: from 2.3.0 before 2.5.3."}], "value": "Improper Authentication vulnerability in Google sign-in and email confirmation in nerves-hub nerves_hub_web allows an attacker who registers another person's email address to share that person's account once they sign in. NervesHub.Accounts.update_or_create_user_from_ueberauth/1 signs a Google user in to any account carrying the same email that is not yet linked to a Google account, links it and marks the email confirmed, without the account's owner ever having proved they own the address. NervesHubWeb.SessionController.confirm/2 likewise signs in whoever follows a confirmation link. An attacker registers the address from the sign-up form, changes their own account's email to it, or registers it as an organization admin from an invite link, and keeps the password; when the address's owner signs in with Google or follows the confirmation link, they land in that account.\n\nThe Google path also creates accounts with registrations closed and never checks Google's email_verified claim, and the API's password sign-in in NervesHubWeb.API.UserController issues tokens to accounts whose email was never confirmed. The attacker gains only what the victim is granted afterwards, and nothing on accounts whose owners never use either path.\n\nThis issue affects nerves_hub: from 2.3.0 before 2.5.3."}], "impacts": [{"capecId": "CAPEC-114", "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [{"base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "<p>An attacker who registers someone else's email address before that person first signs in with Google, or before they follow a confirmation link, ends up sharing that person's account: the attacker keeps signing in with the password they chose and sees and does whatever the victim can, in every organization the victim joins, at the victim's role. On an account linked to Google the victim cannot reset the password to lock the attacker out.</p>"}, {"base64": false, "type": "text/markdown", "value": "An attacker who registers someone else's email address before that person first signs in with Google, or before they follow a confirmation link, ends up sharing that person's account: the attacker keeps signing in with the password they chose and sees and does whatever the victim can, in every organization the victim joins, at the victim's role. On an account linked to Google the victim cannot reset the password to lock the attacker out."}], "value": "An attacker who registers someone else's email address before that person first signs in with Google, or before they follow a confirmation link, ends up sharing that person's account: the attacker keeps signing in with the password they chose and sees and does whatever the victim can, in every organization the victim joins, at the victim's role. On an account linked to Google the victim cannot reset the password to lock the attacker out."}]}], "metrics": [{"cvssV4_0": {"Automatable": "NOT_DEFINED", "Recovery": "NOT_DEFINED", "Safety": "NOT_DEFINED", "attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackRequirements": "PRESENT", "attackVector": "NETWORK", "baseScore": 7.4, "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "privilegesRequired": "NONE", "providerUrgency": "NOT_DEFINED", "subAvailabilityImpact": "NONE", "subConfidentialityImpact": "NONE", "subIntegrityImpact": "NONE", "userInteraction": "ACTIVE", "valueDensity": "NOT_DEFINED", "vectorString": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N", "version": "4.0", "vulnAvailabilityImpact": "NONE", "vulnConfidentialityImpact": "HIGH", "vulnIntegrityImpact": "HIGH", "vulnerabilityResponseEffort": "NOT_DEFINED"}, "format": "CVSS", "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "GENERAL"}]}], "problemTypes": [{"descriptions": [{"cweId": "CWE-287", "description": "CWE-287 Improper Authentication", "lang": "en", "type": "CWE"}]}, {"descriptions": [{"cweId": "CWE-345", "description": "CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity", "lang": "en", "type": "CWE"}]}], "providerMetadata": {"orgId": "6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db", "shortName": "EEF", "dateUpdated": "2026-11-10T10:43:38.941Z"}, "references": [{"name": "Google sign-in and email confirmation links sign users in to accounts other people registered with their email address", "tags": ["vendor-advisory", "related"], "url": "https://github.com/nerves-hub/nerves_hub_web/security/advisories/GHSA-r92p-gg92-gmwm"}, {"name": "EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-120999", "tags": ["related"], "url": "https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-120999.html"}, {"name": "OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-120999", "tags": ["related"], "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-120999"}, {"name": "Introducing commit 7498267 in nerves-hub/nerves_hub_web", "tags": ["related"], "url": "https://github.com/nerves-hub/nerves_hub_web/commit/74982672ab914bd6f37c3bc0e24a06e3474fa030"}, {"name": "Fix commit 54dbf93 in nerves-hub/nerves_hub_web", "tags": ["patch"], "url": "https://github.com/nerves-hub/nerves_hub_web/commit/54dbf93c3bd323df08223a853c9afcf0b4dbf8e4"}], "solutions": [{"lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [{"base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "<p>Upgrading does not undo links already made. Review the <code>users</code> rows that carry both a <code>password_hash</code> and a <code>google_id</code>; most are one person signing in both ways, but an account registered for someone else's address was usually created well before its first Google sign-in, so compare <code>inserted_at</code> with <code>google_last_synced_at</code>. For one its owner did not set up, set its <code>google_id</code> to <code>NULL</code>, delete its <code>user_tokens</code> rows to end its sessions and revoke its API tokens, and have the address's owner reset the password. An account taken through a confirmation link looks the same as one its owner set up; its owner can end anyone else's access by resetting the password, which ends every session and revokes every API token. Before upgrading, check how your instance lets people sign up: <code>SIGN_UP_METHODS</code> replaces <code>OPEN_FOR_REGISTRATIONS</code>, and instances that relied on Google sign-in to create accounts while registrations were off need <code>SIGN_UP_METHODS=google</code>.</p>"}, {"base64": false, "type": "text/markdown", "value": "Upgrading does not undo links already made. Review the `users` rows that carry both a `password_hash` and a `google_id`; most are one person signing in both ways, but an account registered for someone else's address was usually created well before its first Google sign-in, so compare `inserted_at` with `google_last_synced_at`. For one its owner did not set up, set its `google_id` to `NULL`, delete its `user_tokens` rows to end its sessions and revoke its API tokens, and have the address's owner reset the password. An account taken through a confirmation link looks the same as one its owner set up; its owner can end anyone else's access by resetting the password, which ends every session and revokes every API token. Before upgrading, check how your instance lets people sign up: `SIGN_UP_METHODS` replaces `OPEN_FOR_REGISTRATIONS`, and instances that relied on Google sign-in to create accounts while registrations were off need `SIGN_UP_METHODS=google`."}], "value": "Upgrading does not undo links already made. Review the users rows that carry both a password_hash and a google_id; most are one person signing in both ways, but an account registered for someone else's address was usually created well before its first Google sign-in, so compare inserted_at with google_last_synced_at. For one its owner did not set up, set its google_id to NULL, delete its user_tokens rows to end its sessions and revoke its API tokens, and have the address's owner reset the password. An account taken through a confirmation link looks the same as one its owner set up; its owner can end anyone else's access by resetting the password, which ends every session and revokes every API token. Before upgrading, check how your instance lets people sign up: SIGN_UP_METHODS replaces OPEN_FOR_REGISTRATIONS, and instances that relied on Google sign-in to create accounts while registrations were off need SIGN_UP_METHODS=google."}], "source": {"discovery": "UNKNOWN"}, "title": "Improper authentication lets Google sign-in and confirmation links sign users in to accounts registered with their email address by someone else", "workarounds": [{"lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [{"base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "<p>Turn off Google sign-in by unsetting <code>GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID</code> until the upgrade; users who only sign in with Google cannot sign in while it is off. This does not close the confirmation link path. Turning off registrations stops strangers using the sign-up form, but not an organization admin registering from an invite link.</p>"}, {"base64": false, "type": "text/markdown", "value": "Turn off Google sign-in by unsetting `GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID` until the upgrade; users who only sign in with Google cannot sign in while it is off. This does not close the confirmation link path. Turning off registrations stops strangers using the sign-up form, but not an organization admin registering from an invite link."}], "value": "Turn off Google sign-in by unsetting GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID until the upgrade; users who only sign in with Google cannot sign in while it is off. This does not close the confirmation link path. Turning off registrations stops strangers using the sign-up form, but not an organization admin registering from an invite link."}], "x_proofOfConcept": [{"lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [{"base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "<p>With Google sign-in turned on and registrations open:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Register an account with <code>[email protected]</code> and a password you choose. Do not confirm it.</li>\n<li>The owner of <code>[email protected]</code> signs in to NervesHub with Google for the first time. They are signed in to your account, and its email is now marked confirmed.</li>\n<li>An organization invites <code>[email protected]</code> and the victim accepts while signed in.</li>\n<li>Sign in with <code>[email protected]</code> and your password. You are a member of the organization at the role it gave the victim.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Without Google sign-in, as an admin of an organization:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Invite <code>[email protected]</code>, copy the invite link from the members page, and register from it with a password you choose.</li>\n<li>Try to sign in with <code>[email protected]</code> and your password. NervesHub refuses, since the email is not confirmed, and emails <code>[email protected]</code> a confirmation link.</li>\n<li>The victim follows the link and is signed in to your account. Keep using your session or sign in with your password.</li>\n</ol>"}, {"base64": false, "type": "text/markdown", "value": "With Google sign-in turned on and registrations open:\n\n1. Register an account with `[email protected]` and a password you choose. Do not confirm it.\n2. The owner of `[email protected]` signs in to NervesHub with Google for the first time. They are signed in to your account, and its email is now marked confirmed.\n3. An organization invites `[email protected]` and the victim accepts while signed in.\n4. Sign in with `[email protected]` and your password. You are a member of the organization at the role it gave the victim.\n\nWithout Google sign-in, as an admin of an organization:\n\n1. Invite `[email protected]`, copy the invite link from the members page, and register from it with a password you choose.\n2. Try to sign in with `[email protected]` and your password. NervesHub refuses, since the email is not confirmed, and emails `[email protected]` a confirmation link.\n3. The victim follows the link and is signed in to your account. Keep using your session or sign in with your password."}], "value": "With Google sign-in turned on and registrations open:\n\n* Register an account with [email protected] and a password you choose. Do not confirm it.\n* The owner of [email protected] signs in to NervesHub with Google for the first time. They are signed in to your account, and its email is now marked confirmed.\n* An organization invites [email protected] and the victim accepts while signed in.\n* Sign in with [email protected] and your password. You are a member of the organization at the role it gave the victim.\n\nWithout Google sign-in, as an admin of an organization:\n\n* Invite [email protected], copy the invite link from the members page, and register from it with a password you choose.\n* Try to sign in with [email protected] and your password. NervesHub refuses, since the email is not confirmed, and emails [email protected] a confirmation link.\n* The victim follows the link and is signed in to your account. Keep using your session or sign in with your password."}]}}}

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