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Fencer Vulns
low 1.8

CVE-2026-82759 json

Reversible IP address pseudonymisation in AshAuthentication audit log hash mode

published 2026-09-17 52 d ago modified 2026-09-18 51 d ago also EEF-CVE-2026-82759 , GHSA-cgqj-pcpq-xhfm , EUVD-2026-81477

cvss
1.8
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • hex ash_authentication 4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.14
  • team-alembic ash_authentication 4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.14

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
52 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 1.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 1.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
hex ash_authentication
>=4.12.0, <4.15.0
>=5.0.0-rc.0, <5.0.0-rc.14
4.15.0
5.0.0-rc.14

Affected products

  • team-alembic ash_authentication

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-760 Use of a One-Way Hash with a Predictable Salt

References

Sources

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