Vulnerability advisory
CVE-2026-82723
Actor record with password digest stored in AshAuthentication audit log entries
Also known as EEF-CVE-2026-82723GHSA-59wx-q3r8-ghv4
- CVSS 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected versions
Repository
| Affected commits | Fixed by commit |
|---|---|
| GIT github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication ↗ | |
| 255cfc9c0e511b7e0de39f8b3d676ae994fae06c to before 17ea0dff3bad56a7e915e050c43ab7160b37901f | 17ea0dff3bad56a7e915e050c43ab7160b37901f |
| 6928fa715e0fa4c8db6cb052523469093e4ea900 to before d6b2be35cf8f0b8ab84e7a934cfb0d91de0a3c17 | d6b2be35cf8f0b8ab84e7a934cfb0d91de0a3c17 |
| 6767fe27eb952e5bc09aa2e5a7d8f96f5a1c424a to before 05826d33b43acfbe836efe79823fa3058d1b6259 | 05826d33b43acfbe836efe79823fa3058d1b6259 |
| Not specified | 255cfc9c0e511b7e0de39f8b3d676ae994fae06c |
| Not specified | f6b49cc98b9ff7c16a1aeb12e35633a8d93a211f |
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Description
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows disclosure of user password digests to readers of the audit store.
The audit_log add-on builds each entry's extra_data in AshAuthentication.AddOn.AuditLog.Auditor.build_extra_data/4, which takes :actor from the action callback context verbatim. Any audited action invoked with actor: set to a user record therefore deposits that record, including its hashed_password attribute, into the audit entry. The same module already collapses the audited identity to an opaque string via AshAuthentication.user_to_subject/1 and filters params against the strategy's configured allow-list, so the actor is the only stored value that reaches the audit store unfiltered. Marking the attribute sensitive?: true does not help, because that redacts inspect/1 output rather than JSON encoding or raw-term storage.
There is no attacker-controlled trigger and no network disclosure path: entries accumulate from ordinary authenticated activity, and an attacker's own requests deposit only their own digest. Exploitation requires independent read access to the audit store, such as database credentials, an audit role, a backup, or a log shipper, at which point the digests support offline password attack against every active account. Whether the material persists depends on the data layer, since raw-term stores keep it verbatim while a SQL store raises Protocol.UndefinedError and drops the entry unless the user resource derives Jason.Encoder.
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.2.
References
- Webcna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-82723.html ↗
- Webgithub.com ↗
- Webosv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-82723 ↗
- Webrepo.hex.pm ↗
- Advisorygithub.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/82xxx/CVE-2026-82723.json ↗
- Advisorygithub.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-59wx-q3r8-ghv4 ↗
- Advisorynvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-82723 ↗
- Fixgithub.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/17ea0dff3bad56a7e915e050c43ab7160b37901f ↗
- Fixgithub.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/255cfc9c0e511b7e0de39f8b3d676ae994fae06c ↗
- Fixgithub.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/commit/f6b49cc98b9ff7c16a1aeb12e35633a8d93a211f ↗
- Packagegithub.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication ↗