diff --git a/src/appengine/libs/auth.py b/src/appengine/libs/auth.py
index 0ee33b2a075..7829abc80f8 100644
--- a/src/appengine/libs/auth.py
+++ b/src/appengine/libs/auth.py
@@ -144,7 +144,16 @@ def get_email_from_bearer_token(request):
 
   token = bearer_token.split(' ')[1]
   try:
-    claim = id_token.verify_oauth2_token(token, google_requests.Request())
+    # audience must be passed explicitly: verify_oauth2_token treats a
+    # missing audience as "don't check it", which would let an ID token
+    # minted for a completely different destination (but for the same
+    # service account, which can be requested by anything with permission
+    # to mint tokens as it, or that the service account itself calls out
+    # to elsewhere with) be replayed against this endpoint. request.url is
+    # the URL Pub/Sub actually pushed to, which is what a correctly
+    # configured OIDC push subscription sets as the token's audience.
+    claim = id_token.verify_oauth2_token(
+        token, google_requests.Request(), audience=request.url)
   except ValueError:
     raise helpers.UnauthorizedError('Malformed bearer token')
   if (not claim.get('email_verified') or
diff --git a/src/clusterfuzz/_internal/tests/appengine/libs/auth_test.py b/src/clusterfuzz/_internal/tests/appengine/libs/auth_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c75d75cb312
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/clusterfuzz/_internal/tests/appengine/libs/auth_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+"""Tests for get_email_from_bearer_token."""
+
+import unittest
+import unittest.mock
+
+import flask
+
+from clusterfuzz._internal.tests.test_libs import helpers as test_helpers
+from libs import auth
+from libs import helpers
+
+
+class GetEmailFromBearerTokenTest(unittest.TestCase):
+  """Tests for get_email_from_bearer_token."""
+
+  def setUp(self):
+    test_helpers.patch(self, [
+        'clusterfuzz._internal.base.utils.service_account_email',
+        'google.oauth2.id_token.verify_oauth2_token',
+    ])
+    self.mock.service_account_email.return_value = (
+        'test-clusterfuzz@appspot.gserviceaccount.com')
+    self.mock.verify_oauth2_token.return_value = {
+        'email_verified': True,
+        'email': 'test-clusterfuzz@appspot.gserviceaccount.com',
+    }
+
+    self.app = flask.Flask('testflask')
+
+  def _make_request(self, url='https://clusterfuzz.example.com/external-update'):
+    with self.app.test_request_context(
+        url, headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer sometoken'}):
+      return auth.get_email_from_bearer_token(flask.request)
+
+  def test_passes_request_url_as_audience(self):
+    """verify_oauth2_token must be called with the request URL as the
+    audience, not left unverified."""
+    self._make_request(url='https://clusterfuzz.example.com/external-update')
+
+    self.mock.verify_oauth2_token.assert_called_once_with(
+        'sometoken', unittest.mock.ANY,
+        audience='https://clusterfuzz.example.com/external-update')
+
+  def test_rejects_token_for_wrong_audience(self):
+    """A token minted for a different destination must be rejected, not
+    just accepted because the email claim happens to match."""
+    self.mock.verify_oauth2_token.side_effect = ValueError(
+        'Token has wrong audience')
+
+    with self.assertRaises(helpers.UnauthorizedError):
+      self._make_request()
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+  unittest.main()