Low severity · published Aug 24, 2026
CVE-2026-75554
Explicit organization scopes survive token refresh after membership ends
2.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in the OAuth token refresh grant in hexpm hexpm allows a user removed from an organization to keep reading its private packages. expand_repositories_scope/3 in lib/hexpm/permissions.ex only rewrites the literal repositories scope, so an explicitly granted repository:<org> or docs:<org> scope passes through it untouched. The refresh grant re-derives a new token from the stored granted_scopes, which holds that expanded form, so every refresh reproduces the organization scope without revisiting membership. Because both CDN edges authorize repository access from the token claim without querying the database, an account removed from an organization retains read access for as long as it keeps refreshing, bounded by the 30 day refresh token lifetime rather than the 30 minute access token lifetime. This issue affects hex.pm: from 2025-10-10 before 2026-08-24.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 37% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
HE
hexpm · hexpm
2025-10-10 before 2026-08-24; 650faa03af511e74c1b3b49ec12d35666b6984c4 before 50cffd206490c49c92d7b63c8505949682abedb0 · source: vendor
Affected product
HE
hexpm
hexpm
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