CVE-2026-82723

Actor record with password digest stored in AshAuthentication audit log entries

State
Published
Severity
1.8 Low
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Reserved
Aug 31, 2026

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Description

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows disclosure of user password digests to readers of the audit store.

The audit_log add-on builds each entry's extra_data in AshAuthentication.AddOn.AuditLog.Auditor.build_extra_data/4, which takes :actor from the action callback context verbatim. Any audited action invoked with actor: set to a user record therefore deposits that record, including its hashed_password attribute, into the audit entry. The same module already collapses the audited identity to an opaque string via AshAuthentication.user_to_subject/1 and filters params against the strategy's configured allow-list, so the actor is the only stored value that reaches the audit store unfiltered. Marking the attribute sensitive?: true does not help, because that redacts inspect/1 output rather than JSON encoding or raw-term storage.

There is no attacker-controlled trigger and no network disclosure path: entries accumulate from ordinary authenticated activity, and an attacker's own requests deposit only their own digest. Exploitation requires independent read access to the audit store, such as database credentials, an audit role, a backup, or a log shipper, at which point the digests support offline password attack against every active account. Whether the material persists depends on the data layer, since raw-term stores keep it verbatim while a SQL store raises Protocol.UndefinedError and drops the entry unless the user resource derives Jason.Encoder.

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.2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.01.8 LowCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NEEF

Weaknesses

  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ash_authenticationteam-alembic
  • 4.12.0 to before 4.15.0Affected
  • 5.0.0-rc.0 to before 5.0.0-rc.2Affected
ash_authenticationteam-alembic
  • 255cfc9c0e511b7e0de39f8b3d676ae994fae06c and laterAffectedfrom 17ea0dff3bad56a7e915e050c43ab7160b37901fNot affectedfrom f6b49cc98b9ff7c16a1aeb12e35633a8d93a211fNot affected

References

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