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Low · 2.1 CVE-2026-81638 EEF-CVE-2026-81638EUVD-2026-72541GHSA-qxp2-vgp9-268q

Non-canonical ULID spellings are accepted and alias to the same record in ash_double_entry

Published Sep 7, 2026 · Updated Sep 8, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding vulnerability in ash-project ash_double_entry allows an attacker to submit several distinct string spellings of the same identifier.

AshDoubleEntry.ULID renders a 128-bit ULID as 26 Crockford base-32 characters, but the first character encodes only 3 bits, so canonical values are 0 to 7. decode/1 in lib/ulid.ex masks the first character to its low 3 bits and valid?/1 accepts all 32 characters in that position, so 0..., 8..., G... and R... decode to the identical 16-byte value and resolve to the same row. When the type is exposed as a public ID over an HTTP or API boundary, an attacker-supplied ID can be spelled differently from the record it actually reads or writes, desynchronizing or bypassing string-level checks such as idempotency and deduplication keys, deny-lists, audit correlation, or signatures computed over the submitted ID.

This issue affects ash_double_entry: from 0.1.0 before 1.0.19.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ash-project ash_double_entry 0.1.0 – < 1.0.19 1.0.19

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex ash_double_entry >= 0.1.0, < 1.0.19 1.0.19 EEF-CVE-2026-81638

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