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CVE-2026-81853: CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in ash-project ash_admin

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VulnerabilityCVE-2026-81853cvecve-2026-81853cwe-639
Published: 08/31/2026 (08/31/2026, 02:31:29 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: ash-project
Product: ash_admin

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.

CVSS v4.0

Score 2.3low

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
Present
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Vuln. Confidentiality
Low
Vuln. Integrity
None
Vuln. Availability
None
Subsq. Confidentiality
None
Subsq. Integrity
None
Subsq. Availability
None
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected software

ash_admin
pkg:hex/ash_admin
Affected versions
>=0.1.0 <1.3.1
GitHub Actionsmore threats →cve
ash-project/ash_admin
pkg:github/ash-project/ash_admin
CPE configurations
cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_admin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
EEF
Date Reserved
2026-08-30T23:15:02.371Z
Cvss Version
4.0
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a94ec7aacd9273b496ee2cb

Added to database: 08/31/2026, 02:52:42 UTC

Last updated: 08/31/2026, 03:37:21 UTC

Views: 7

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