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Explicit organization scopes survive token refresh after membership ends

Published Aug 24, 2026

Description

Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in the OAuth token refresh grant in hexpm hexpm allows a user removed from an organization to keep reading its private packages.

expand_repositories_scope/3 in lib/hexpm/permissions.ex only rewrites the literal repositories scope, so an explicitly granted repository:<org> or docs:<org> scope passes through it untouched. The refresh grant re-derives a new token from the stored granted_scopes, which holds that expanded form, so every refresh reproduces the organization scope without revisiting membership. Because both CDN edges authorize repository access from the token claim without querying the database, an account removed from an organization retains read access for as long as it keeps refreshing, bounded by the 30 day refresh token lifetime rather than the 30 minute access token lifetime.

This issue affects hex.pm: from 2025-10-10 before 2026-08-24.

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner EEF
Published Aug 24, 2026
Updated Aug 25, 2026
Reserved Aug 18, 2026

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Aug 25, 2026

NVD

Status Deferred
Modified Sep 1, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner EEF
Published Aug 24, 2026
Updated Aug 25, 2026

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