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Low · 2.3 CVE-2026-81853 EEF-CVE-2026-81853EUVD-2026-68330GHSA-jxr8-hpv2-qp38

AshAdmin composite primary key decoding accepts arbitrary fields, enabling a secret-attribute oracle

Published Aug 31, 2026 · Updated Aug 31, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in ash-project ash_admin turns a record-lookup URL into an equality oracle over sensitive attributes.

AshAdmin.Helpers.decode_primary_key/2 decodes the composite-primary-key form (Base64 plus ETF) and returns the decoded map verbatim as the lookup filter, without checking that its keys are the resource's primary-key fields. The deserialization guards bound size, block new atoms and funs, and reject nested expressions, but none restricts which fields come back, and :safe still allows any already-interned attribute name. An attacker can therefore encode %{api_token: "guess"} and have it spliced into the lookup filter, brute-forcing a sensitive attribute value (API token, reset token) one equality guess at a time; Map.to_list/1 also accepts structs, yielding a bogus __struct__ key. The fix rejects any decoded key that is not a real primary-key field.

This issue affects ash_admin: from 0.1.0 before 1.3.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ash-project ash_admin 0.1.0 – < 1.3.1 1.3.1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex ash_admin >= 0.1.0, < 1.3.1 1.3.1 EEF-CVE-2026-81853

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