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Description

Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding vulnerability in ash-project ash_double_entry allows an attacker to submit several distinct string spellings of the same identifier.

AshDoubleEntry.ULID renders a 128-bit ULID as 26 Crockford base-32 characters, but the first character encodes only 3 bits, so canonical values are 0 to 7. decode/1 in lib/ulid.ex masks the first character to its low 3 bits and valid?/1 accepts all 32 characters in that position, so 0..., 8..., G... and R... decode to the identical 16-byte value and resolve to the same row. When the type is exposed as a public ID over an HTTP or API boundary, an attacker-supplied ID can be spelled differently from the record it actually reads or writes, desynchronizing or bypassing string-level checks such as idempotency and deduplication keys, deny-lists, audit correlation, or signatures computed over the submitted ID.

This issue affects ash_double_entry: from 0.1.0 before 1.0.19.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-173 · Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-267 · Leverage Alternate Encoding MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / ash_double_entry Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

0.1.0 < 1.0.19 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_double_entry:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshDoubleEntry.ULID'
source files lib/ulid.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshDoubleEntry.ULID':cast_input/2 · 'Elixir.AshDoubleEntry.ULID':dump_to_native/2

Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash_double_entry Repository ↗

1e5f7ce < d3e688d affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_double_entry:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshDoubleEntry.ULID'
source files lib/ulid.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshDoubleEntry.ULID':cast_input/2 · 'Elixir.AshDoubleEntry.ULID':dump_to_native/2

Configurations

Reachable only when an application exposes AshDoubleEntry.ULID as a public identifier over an HTTP or API boundary and performs string-level checks on the submitted ID (idempotency or deduplication keys, deny-lists, audit correlation, or signatures) rather than treating the value as opaque.

References

Credits

Peter Ullrich Finder Reporter
Zach Daniel / Ash Project Remediation developer
Jonatan Männchen / EEF Coordinator

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
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