CVE-2026-94206
Description
Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort vulnerability in danielberkompas cloak_ecto and danielberkompas cloak allows an attacker who holds the hashed values and the configured secret to brute-force low-entropy plaintexts much faster than configured. The dump/1 callback that Cloak.Ecto.PBKDF2 (Cloak.Fields.PBKDF2 in cloak before the Ecto code moved to cloak_ecto) injects into a field module calls :pbkdf2.pbkdf2/4 with config[:size] in the iteration-count position. The :iterations setting is validated but never used. With the cloak_ecto defaults (iterations: 600_000, size: 32) each hash runs 32 PBKDF2 rounds instead of 600,000, so offline guessing of values such as email addresses costs about 18,750 times less than configured. This issue affects cloak_ecto: from 1.0.0-alpha.0 onward; cloak: from 0.7.0 before 1.0.0-alpha.0.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-94206.html
- https://github.com/danielberkompas/cloak/commit/681c9702b7cd9afe0e5a840751ab009f550c69a9
- https://github.com/danielberkompas/cloak/commit/8699e6417a162c39d9f0ef63511bd23d3f38d1d2
- https://github.com/danielberkompas/cloak_ecto/commit/a8fa1642b02f1c445a1ee8794c9095eb0921f8f3
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-94206
CWEs
CWE-916
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.