---
id: CVE-2025-61783
aliases:
  - GHSA-wv4w-6qv2-qqfg
  - PYSEC-2026-1932
title: 'Python Social Auth - Django has unsafe account association '
summary: 'Python Social Auth - Django has unsafe account association '
severity: medium
vendor: social-auth-app-django
product: social-auth-app-django
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - social-auth-app-django < 5.6.0
patched:
  - social-auth-app-django 5.6.0
published: '2025-10-09'
updated: '2026-07-07'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-wv4w-6qv2-qqfg'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/security/advisories/GHSA-wv4w-6qv2-qqfg
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61783'
  - url: 'https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/issues/220'
  - url: 'https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/issues/231'
  - url: 'https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/issues/634'
  - url: 'https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/pull/803'
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/commit/10c80e2ebabeccd4e9c84ad0e16e1db74148ed4c
  - url: 'https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
epss: 0.00424
epssPercentile: 0.33951
ingestedAt: '2026-07-08T18:25:53.904Z'
---

## Overview

### Impact

Upon authentication, the user could be associated by e-mail even if the `associate_by_email` pipeline was not included. This could lead to account compromise when a third-party authentication service does not validate provided e-mail addresses or doesn't require unique e-mail addresses.

### Patches

* https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-app-django/pull/803

### Workarounds

Review the authentication service policy on e-mail addresses; many will not allow exploiting this vulnerability.

## Affected packages

- `social-auth-app-django < 5.6.0`

## Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

- `social-auth-app-django 5.6.0`