# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-81638"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-07T22:33:29.297Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-08T14:44:19.138Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-81638"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-81638.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81638"
title: "Non-canonical ULID spellings are accepted and alias to the same record in ash_double_entry"
summary: "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.\n\nAshDoubleEntry.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.\n\nThis issue affects ash_double_entry: from 0.1.0 before 1.0.19."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0.1.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.0.19"}],"vendor":"ash-project","product":"ash_double_entry","packageName":"ash_double_entry","collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"1e5f7ce8ff25f519c904731a29eb1258324e561a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d3e688d300a581ae214b3ca7d95ef4de63fbb050"}],"vendor":"ash-project","product":"ash_double_entry","packageName":"ash-project/ash_double_entry","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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