Answer in brief
CVE-2026-82760 records a Unknown severity vulnerability in Superlinear base62 decoding exhausts CPU and memory in AshAuthentication API key sign-in. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps team-alembic/ash_authentication (generic), team-alembic/ash_authentication (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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A CVSS score is not reported in the current record. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps team-alembic/ash_authentication (generic), team-alembic/ash_authentication (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| team-alembic/ash_authenticationgeneric | >=4.8.0 <4.15.0 || >=5.0.0-rc.0 <5.0.0-rc.14 | 4.15.0, 5.0.0-rc.14 |
| team-alembic/ash_authenticationgeneric | >=f3a53f480088419788d5c3934af3131fa9066773 <* | * |
Published upstream
Sep 17, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 17, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 17, 2026
Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity vulnerability in team-alembic AshAuthentication allows an unauthenticated attacker to exhaust CPU and memory via an oversized base62 segment in a submitted API key. AshAuthentication.Base.decode62/1 in lib/ash_authentication/base.ex splits its argument into one binary per character and folds it with charval62/2, which recomputes Integer.pow(62, index) at every position instead of accumulating by Horner's method, so cost grows roughly cubically in the input length. bindecode62/1 in the same module is quadratic through Integer.undigits/2 and Integer.digits/2. Neither function caps byte_size/1, and AshAuthentication.Strategy.ApiKey.SignInPreparation passes the underscore-separated segments of the submitted key straight into both, before any key lookup and without prior authentication. The surrounding rescue clauses catch exceptions, not CPU or memory exhaustion. This issue affects ash_authentication: from 4.8.0 before 4.15.0 and from 5.0.0-rc.0 before 5.0.0-rc.14.
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