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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-94206 EEF-CVE-2026-94206EUVD-2026-93091GHSA-fjfg-jh7h-6w3j

Cloak PBKDF2 field ignores the configured iteration count and runs only :size rounds

Published Oct 6, 2026 · Updated Oct 6, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort vulnerability in danielberkompas cloak_ecto and danielberkompas cloak allows an attacker who holds the hashed values and the configured secret to brute-force low-entropy plaintexts much faster than configured.

The dump/1 callback that Cloak.Ecto.PBKDF2 (Cloak.Fields.PBKDF2 in cloak before the Ecto code moved to cloak_ecto) injects into a field module calls :pbkdf2.pbkdf2/4 with config[:size] in the iteration-count position. The :iterations setting is validated but never used. With the cloak_ecto defaults (iterations: 600_000, size: 32) each hash runs 32 PBKDF2 rounds instead of 600,000, so offline guessing of values such as email addresses costs about 18,750 times less than configured.

This issue affects cloak_ecto: from 1.0.0-alpha.0 onward; cloak: from 0.7.0 before 1.0.0-alpha.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
danielberkompas cloak_ecto 1.0.0-alpha.0 —
danielberkompas cloak 0.7.0 – < 1.0.0-alpha.0 1.0.0-alpha.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex cloak >= 0.7.0, < 1.0.0-alpha.0 1.0.0-alpha.0 EEF-CVE-2026-94206
Hex cloak_ecto >= 1.0.0-alpha.0 — EEF-CVE-2026-94206

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