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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.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-639
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Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-77
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Manipulating User-Controlled Variables
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / ash_admin Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash_admin Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Configurations
The resource has a composite primary key, and the deployment relies on AshAdmin's authorization (a custom actor plug and policies) so that reading otherwise-restricted attribute values crosses a boundary.
References
Credits
CVSS breakdown
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