CVE-2026-44166

Pocketbase: Account pre-hijacking via OAuth2 unverfied->verified autolinking upgrade

Published May 12, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 6.1 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Pocketbase is an open source web backend written in go. Prior to 0.22.42 and 0.37.4, in some situations, if an attacker knows the email address of the victim they can create and link an unverified PocketBase user in advance by authenticating with one of the OAuth2 app providers, e.g. "A". When the victim gets invited or decides to sign up to your app on their own with provider "B" (PocketBase OAuth2 auth requires to be with a different provider because we don't allow multiple OAuth2 accounts from the same provider to be associated to a single PocketBase user), the user created previously by the attacker will be autolinked, upgraded to "verified" and its old password reset. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.22.42 and 0.37.4.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-pq7p-mc74-g65w PocketBase vulnerable to account pre-hijacking via OAuth2 unverfied->verified autolinking upgrade
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:pocketbase:pocketbase:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Pocketbase
Pocketbase pocketbase
Vendors & Products Pocketbase
Pocketbase pocketbase
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Pocketbase is an open source web backend written in go. Prior to 0.22.42 and 0.37.4, in some situations, if an attacker knows the email address of the victim they can create and link an unverified PocketBase user in advance by authenticating with one of the OAuth2 app providers, e.g. "A". When the victim gets invited or decides to sign up to your app on their own with provider "B" (PocketBase OAuth2 auth requires to be with a different provider because we don't allow multiple OAuth2 accounts from the same provider to be associated to a single PocketBase user), the user created previously by the attacker will be autolinked, upgraded to "verified" and its old password reset. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.22.42 and 0.37.4.
Title Pocketbase: Account pre-hijacking via OAuth2 unverfied->verified autolinking upgrade
Weaknesses CWE-287
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
May 12, 2026, 6:50 PM
Reserved
May 5, 2026, 2:39 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
May 12, 2026, 6:17 PM
Modified
Nov 11, 2026, 8:10 PM