Unverified Sign in with Apple callback parameter can override verified ID token claims

Overview

Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data vulnerability in the Sign in with Apple strategy in pow-auth Assent allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to impersonate another user via the user parameter of the authorization callback.

Apple posts the user's name to the callback endpoint in a user form parameter that the browser submits and the client controls. Assent.Strategy.Apple.callback/2 in lib/assent/strategies/apple.ex decodes that parameter, and fetch_user/2 merges it over the claims of the verified ID token, so the unverified map wins. An attacker who completes a Sign in with Apple login with their own Apple ID and edits the user parameter can replace sub, email, and any other claim. Applications that look up, link, or authorize accounts by the returned subject or email then act on the attacker's values.

This issue affects assent: from 0.1.25 before 0.3.2.

Affected

• assent >= 0.1.25 < 0.3.2
• pow-auth/assent >= a2d331e8c51376d6c0b04a81aad31e0b4d4d64a3 < 18898bde0296152165ae470078490e5798329b1b

Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.

Workarounds

Remove the user parameter from the callback parameters before you pass them to Assent.Strategy.Apple.callback/2, for example with Map.delete(params, "user"). Without the parameter, decode_user_params/2 yields an empty map and the verified ID token claims pass through unchanged. The user's name is then unavailable, because Apple delivers it only through this parameter.