CVE-2026-41574: Nhost Vulnerable to Account Takeover via OAuth Email Verification Bypass
Description
Nhost is an open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL. Prior to version 0.49.1, Nhost automatically links an incoming OAuth identity to an existing Nhost account when the email addresses match. This is only safe when the email has been verified by the OAuth provider. Nhost's controller trusts a profile.EmailVerified boolean that is set by each provider adapter. The vulnerability is that several provider adapters do not correctly populate this field they either silently drop a verified field the provider API actually returns (Discord), or they fall back to accepting unconfirmed emails and marking them as verified (Bitbucket). Two Microsoft providers (AzureAD, EntraID) derive the email from non-ownership-proving fields like the user principal name, then mark it verified. The result is that an attacker can present an email they don't own to Nhost, have the OAuth identity merged into the victim's account, and receive a full authenticated session. This issue has been patched in version 0.49.1.
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · CWE-287
Tracked companies
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Status incidents that name it
No tracked status incident names this CVE.
Affected vendors and products
nhost: nhost
References
- CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
- NVD entry (opens in new tab)
- github.com/nhost/nhost/commit/ec8dab3f2cf46e1131ddaf893d56c37aa00380b2 (opens in new tab)
- github.com/nhost/nhost/pull/4162 (opens in new tab)
- github.com/nhost/nhost/releases/tag/auth%400.49.1 (opens in new tab)
- github.com/nhost/nhost/security/advisories/GHSA-6g38-8j4p-j3pr (opens in new tab)
- CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (opens in new tab)
- This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (opens in new tab)
- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (opens in new tab)
- EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (opens in new tab)