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Description
Use of Insufficiently Random Values vulnerability in ash-project ash_admin ships a hardcoded, publicly known CSP nonce, defeating nonce-based Content-Security-Policy protection.
When mounted without :csp_nonce_assign_key, AshAdmin.Router.ash_admin/2 defaulted the img, style, and script nonces to the literal constant ash_admin-Ed55GFnX, which AshAdmin.Layouts wrote verbatim into the nonce attribute of its inline <style> and <script> tags on every response. The value is a compile-time constant published in the repository and is never rotated per request. If an application's CSP script-src allow-lists that documented default, any HTML-injection sink on an admin page can reuse the known nonce to run inline scripts the policy was meant to block. The fix generates a fresh random nonce per request.
This issue affects ash_admin: from 0.10.8 before 1.3.1.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-330
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Use of Insufficiently Random Values
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-63
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Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / ash_admin Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files
Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash_admin Repository ↗
modules · source files
Configurations
The application mounts AshAdmin without :csp_nonce_assign_key and enforces a nonce-based CSP whose script-src allow-lists the default ash_admin-Ed55GFnX value, and has a separate HTML-injection sink on an admin page.
References
Credits
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N