CVE-2026-42560: auth: Patreon provider assigns the same local user ID to every authenticated Patreon account, enabling cross‑user impersonation
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The Patreon OAuth provider maps every authenticated Patreon account to the same local user.ID, instead of deriving a unique ID from the Patreon account returned by Patreon.
In practice, this means all Patreon-authenticated users of an application using this library are collapsed into a single local identity. Any application that trusts token.User.ID as the stable account key can end up mixing or fully merging unrelated Patreon users, which can lead to cross-account access, privilege confusion, and subscription-state leakage.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-f6qq-3m3h-4g42
- github.com/go-pkgz/auth/commit/c0b15ee72a8401da83c01781c16636c521f42698
- github.com/go-pkgz/auth/releases/tag/v1.25.2
- github.com/go-pkgz/auth/releases/tag/v2.1.2
- github.com/go-pkgz/auth/security/advisories/GHSA-f6qq-3m3h-4g42
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42560
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