Turned out to be a bug in AccountsService.
Proposed a fix upstream: 
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/168

As for workarounds, I suggest ignoring/denying the authorization request
instead of authenticating/allowing it.

** Also affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Alessandro Astone (aleasto)

** Changed in: gdm3 (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Invalid

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-26.04

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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  GDM greeter asks for authentication when switch user

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