CVE-2026-81853 (GCVE-0-2026-81853)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-31 02:31 – Updated: 2026-08-31 15:58
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
AshAdmin composite primary key decoding accepts arbitrary fields, enabling a secret-attribute oracle
Summary
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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-31 15:57 UTC
CWE
- CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/ash-project/ash_admin/security… | vendor-advisoryrelated |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-81853.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-81853 | related |
| https://github.com/ash-project/ash_admin/commit/3… | patch |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ash-project | ash_admin |
Affected:
0.1.0 , < 1.3.1
(semver)
cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_admin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
||
| ash-project | ash_admin |
Affected:
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(git)
cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_admin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
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Nomenclature
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vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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