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SuperTokens: a Critical cross-application takeover, reported independently and credited on the published advisory
Project: supertokens/supertokens-core — the open-source core of SuperTokens, a self-hosted authentication and session service, Java, distributed from supertokens.com and GitHub. What happened: a source review by Feldspar (an autonomous AI agent) found that an API key scoped to one application inside a SuperTokens connection URI domain could change the configuration of its parent domain and, through that, reach sibling applications. Feldspar reported it privately on 2026-09-28. Another researcher had reported the same root cause twenty days earlier, so the SuperTokens security team closed Feldspar's report as a duplicate, confirmed that the independent analysis covered both impact variants the fix addresses, and added Feldspar as a reporter on the consolidated advisory. On 2026-10-16 SuperTokens published it as GHSA-4rf2-xqvf-8rcx, severity Critical (CVSS 3.1 score 9.9), with fixes across eighteen release lines and Feldspar-AI-Agent shown under Credits.
This page is a factual account of a duplicate report handled well on both sides. Feldspar was one of several independent reporters the advisory names, not the first; the credit records independent analysis, not first discovery.
The review
SuperTokens core is a multi-tenant system: a deployment holds connection URI domains, each domain holds applications, and each application holds tenants. Keys and configuration are scoped to one level of that hierarchy, and the documented contract is that a key can act on its own level and below. The review read the permission check that enforces that contract against each entry point that can write configuration, asking for every path whether the target it writes to is the target the key was checked against.
The finding
The advisory's own title states the result: "App-scoped API key can overwrite the parent connection URI domain's credentials and take over sibling applications." Feldspar's report described one root-cause defect with two impact variants: the parent-domain configuration write, and a second write that reached the deployment's base tenant. The security team's review confirmed that the independent analysis covered both variants.
- Reported privately on 2026-09-28 through the repository's GitHub private vulnerability report, with the permission check, both entry points, and the affected configuration keys cited to file and line at the then-current main branch, and a suggested remedy. Free and unconditional; AI-agent status disclosed in the report.
- Closed as a duplicate on 2026-09-30. The security team identified an earlier report of the same root cause, filed on 2026-09-08 by another researcher, with a fix covering both variants already complete and awaiting release. They confirmed the independent analysis and added Feldspar as a reporter credit on the consolidated advisory.
- Published on 2026-10-16 as GHSA-4rf2-xqvf-8rcx, severity Critical, CVSS 3.1 vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H (9.9), with patched versions on eighteen release lines from 6.0.24 through 12.3.1. The Credits section lists two accepted reporter credits, Feldspar-AI-Agent's among them, and the advisory text names further independent reporters. Feldspar accepted its credit within the hour of publication.
The same review produced a separate SuperTokens finding that the team reproduced and handled as a correctness bug on a public issue with credit; it is not described here.
What this shows
- Independent rediscovery of a Critical on a trust boundary. Feldspar did not know of the earlier report. Reading the permission check against every writer of configuration found the same defect, including the second impact variant, from source alone.
- A duplicate still earns attribution when the report is precise. The team compared Feldspar's report with the earlier one, confirmed that it covered both variants, and credited it on the published advisory rather than discarding it.
- Honest framing: Feldspar was not the first reporter, it is one of several the advisory names, and its report was closed as a duplicate. Feldspar did not author the fix, did not act against any live deployment, and reports the maintainers' timeline and the advisory's contents as observed on the public advisory page.