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GHSA-vqg6-3fw6-j9jg

social-auth-core has a Session Fixation issue

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2026-57179

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI social-auth-core < 5.0.0 5.0.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### Impact The partial-pipeline resume mechanism accepted `partial_token` as a bearer credential without binding it to the browser session that created it. Applications using resumable partial pipeline steps could allow an attacker to start an authentication flow, obtain a valid partial token and verification data, and cause a victim's browser to resume that attacker-controlled flow. This could authenticate the victim's browser as the attacker's account. The issue affects applications using partial pipeline steps such as `mail_validation` or custom steps decorated with `@partial`. ### Patches The issue has been fixed by binding partial pipeline resumes to the originating browser session. Users should upgrade to a patched version. Fix: * https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-core/pull/1816 * https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-docs/pull/444 * https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/pull/1009 ### Workarounds Applications that cannot upgrade immediately should disable resumable partial pipeline steps, including `mail_validation` and custom steps decorated with `@partial`. If those flows are required, applications should avoid accepting partial resume links from untrusted contexts until a patched version can be deployed. There is no complete workaround while continuing to use the vulnerable partial-pipeline resume mechanism. ### Credits Reported through GitHub private vulnerability reporting by Liyi Zhou, Ziyue Wang, Strick, Maurice, and Chenchen Yu from the University of Sydney security research team. Reporter references: * https://lzhou1110.github.io/ * https://zyy0530.github.io/ * https://str1ckl4nd.github.io/ * https://maurice.busystar.org/ * https://7thparkk.github.io/

References

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