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.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-pq7p-mc74-g65w PocketBase vulnerable to account pre-hijacking via OAuth2 unverfied->verified autolinking upgrade
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Tue, 12 May 2026 17:30:00 +0000

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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
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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'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-12T18:50:17.712Z

Reserved: 2026-05-05T14:39:34.923Z

Link: CVE-2026-44166

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-12T18:17:29.123

Modified: 2026-05-12T18:17:29.123

Link: CVE-2026-44166

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