CVE-2026-47164: Vaultwarden: SSO Email Auto-Link Can Bind an Existing Local Account to an Attacker-Controlled IdP Identity

Severity: high (CVSS 7.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-07-15 · updated 2026-10-24
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

Vaultwarden is a Bitwarden-compatible server written in Rust. Prior to 1.36.0, Vaultwarden's SSO login flow checked the IdP email_verified claim only for new-user creation and not when SSO_SIGNUPS_MATCH_EMAIL=true linked an IdP identity to an existing local account, allowing an attacker-controlled IdP identity asserting a victim email address to bind to and authenticate as that account. This issue is fixed in version 1.36.0.

Affected products

dani-garcia vaultwarden: before 1.36.0

References

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/commit/d297e274a35dccd0f5d935e9d5934e0f7e9c0a87
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/pull/7163
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/releases/tag/1.36.0
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/security/advisories/GHSA-6x5c-84vm-5j56

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