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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Reversible IP address pseudonymisation in AshAuthentication audit log hash mode | |
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Team-alembic
Team-alembic ash Authentication |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-760 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:team-alembic:ash_authentication:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Team-alembic
Team-alembic ash Authentication |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: EEF
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-17T18:19:18.209Z
Reserved: 2026-08-31T01:00:10.817Z
Link: CVE-2026-82759
Updated: 2026-09-17T18:19:10.006Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-17T14:17:33.030
Modified: 2026-09-17T19:17:04.287
Link: CVE-2026-82759
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