GHSA-9r87-mvcw-x35f: Coder vulnerable to OIDC account takeover via email-based user matching and email_verified bypass
Summary
Two flaws in Coder's OIDC login chained into account takeover: email-based user matching fell back to linking by email without checking for an existing link to a different IdP subject and the email_verified claim was only enforced when present as a boolean false so an absent or non-boolean claim was treated as verified.
Impact
An attacker who could authenticate at the configured OIDC provider with an email matching a victim's Coder account could log in as that victim and gain full access to their workspaces, templates and resources. This required OIDC authentication, attacker control of a matching email at the IdP and a victim account not yet linked to a different IdP subject.
Patches
The fix restricts the email fallback to first-time and legacy linking and defaults email_verified to false when the claim is absent or of an unexpected type.
The fix was backported to all supported release lines:
| Release line | Patched version |
|---|---|
| 2.34 | v2.34.2 |
| 2.33 | v2.33.8 |
| 2.32 | v2.32.7 |
| 2.29 (ESR) | v2.29.17 |
Workarounds
Configure the OIDC provider to disallow self-registration or to require email verification before issuing tokens.
Resources
- Fix: #25712, #25713
Credits
Coder would like to thank Anthropic's Security Team (ANT-2026-22450) for independently disclosing this issue!
Details
Original advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9r87-mvcw-x35f
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-550750.48% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 38% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-55075 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
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