Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in ueberauth guardian allows an unauthenticated attacker to revoke a victim's session with a forged token.
Guardian.revoke/3 in lib/guardian.ex decodes the supplied token with peek/1, which performs no signature verification (it only base64-decodes the JWT header and payload). The resulting unverified claims are forwarded directly to the configured token module's revoke callback and the implementation's on_revoke callback, a state-mutating sink. The sibling operations refresh/2 and exchange/4 both call decode_and_verify first, so the signature is checked before anything acts on the claims; revoke/3 is the only state-mutating path that acts on claims without verifying the signature.
An attacker who knows or guesses a victim's identifying claim values (jti, sub) can forge a JWT carrying those claims, sign it with an arbitrary key, and submit it to any endpoint that funnels a caller-supplied token into Guardian.revoke/3 (the standard logout / session-revocation pattern). When the token module mutates state keyed by the claims (whitelist deletion or blacklist insertion, for example a GuardianDb-style store), the victim's legitimate session is evicted. This is an unauthenticated session-revocation denial of service; the attacker never needs the signing secret.
This issue affects guardian: from 1.0.0 before 2.4.1.
References
| Link | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-55735.html | Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian/commit/2bd7a8c29770d423d855c0a4965caa6c3e486901 | Patch |
| https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian/security/advisories/GHSA-7975-hp3r-5qhv | Exploit Patch Vendor Advisory |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-55735 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian/security/advisories/GHSA-7975-hp3r-5qhv | Exploit Patch Vendor Advisory |
Configurations
History
06 Aug 2026, 14:25
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
|---|---|---|
| References | () https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-55735.html - Third Party Advisory | |
| References | () https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian/commit/2bd7a8c29770d423d855c0a4965caa6c3e486901 - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian/security/advisories/GHSA-7975-hp3r-5qhv - Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-55735 - Third Party Advisory | |
| First Time |
Ueberauth
Ueberauth guardian |
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| CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5 |
| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:ueberauth:guardian:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
03 Aug 2026, 20:17
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
|---|---|---|
| References | () https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian/security/advisories/GHSA-7975-hp3r-5qhv - |
01 Aug 2026, 19:16
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| New CVE |
Information
Published : 2026-08-01 19:16
Updated : 2026-08-06 14:25
NVD link : CVE-2026-55735
Mitre link : CVE-2026-55735
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-55735
JSON object : View
Products Affected
ueberauth
- guardian
CWE
CWE-347
Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
