CVE-2026-82759

published 2026-09-17

CVE-2026-82759: 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…

Priority P4 13 low 1.8 CVSS 4.0

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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

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
team-alembic	ash_authentication	>= 255cfc9c0e511b7e0de39f8b3d676ae994fae06c < *	*
team-alembic	ash_authentication	>= 4.12.0 < 4.15.0	4.15.0
team-alembic	ash_authentication	>= 5.0.0-rc.0 < 5.0.0-rc.14	5.0.0-rc.14

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