CVE-2026-82759
Published:September 17, 2026
Updated:September 22, 2026
Use of a One-Way Hash with a Predictable Salt vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows readers of the audit store to recover the client IP addresses that the audit log add-on's :hash privacy mode is meant to pseudonymise.
AshAuthentication.AddOn.AuditLog.IpPrivacy.hash_ip/1 computes a single unkeyed :crypto.hash(:sha256, salt <> ip) and truncates the result to 16 hexadecimal characters. The salt is read from the :audit_log_ip_salt or :secret application config keys, and falls back to the constant "default-salt-change-in-production" published in the library source when neither is set, with nothing warning that the default is in use. The IPv4 space is only 2^32 values and SHA-256 is fast, so the whole hash table is precomputable and every stored value maps back to its source address. Truncating to 16 characters does not help, and even a configured salt leaves the hash cheap enough to enumerate once it leaks.
This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.12.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v5.0.0-rc.0 <v5.0.0-rc.14Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v5.0.0-rc.14https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v4.12.0 <v4.15.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v4.15.0ash_authentication (HEX):
Affected version(s) >=5.0.0-rc.0 <5.0.0-rc.14Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 5.0.0-rc.14ash_authentication (HEX):
Affected version(s) >=4.12.0 <4.15.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.15.0Related Resources (6)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
1.8
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
LOW
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
2.3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Use of a One-Way Hash with a Predictable Salt
EPSS
Base Score:
0.10