{"id":"CVE-2026-77970","title":"Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information vulnerability in ash-project ash_paper_trail allows an attacker with read access to the generated version resource to recover sensitive values nested inside embedded resources, unions, or lists.…","summary":"Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information vulnerability in ash-project ash_paper_trail allows an attacker with read access to the generated version resource to recover sensitive values nested inside embedded resources, unions, or lists.…","severity":"none","cwe":["CWE-312"],"published":"2026-08-30","updated":"2026-08-30","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77970","references":[{"url":"https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-77970.html","label":"6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db"},{"url":"https://github.com/ash-project/ash_paper_trail/commit/0cd4acfe7f48397673d8594fb5e2cd0f1bda6e40","label":"6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db"},{"url":"https://github.com/ash-project/ash_paper_trail/security/advisories/GHSA-v645-6jm6-cgpj","label":"6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db"},{"url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-77970","label":"6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00097,"epssPercentile":0.00857,"ingestedAt":"2026-08-30T14:53:42.533Z","slug":"CVE-2026-77970","body":"## Overview\n\nCleartext Storage of Sensitive Information vulnerability in ash-project ash_paper_trail allows an attacker with read access to the generated version resource to recover sensitive values nested inside embedded resources, unions, or lists.\n\nsensitive_attributes :redact and :ignore only act on the tracked resource's top-level attributes. maybe_redact_changes/3 and the stored-action-input path in AshPaperTrail.Resource.Changes.CreateNewVersion derive the sensitive set from the resource's own attributes and never descend into embedded, union, or list values, so a non-sensitive attribute or action argument that holds an embed with a sensitive? field (for example an accepted credentials embed carrying a token) is written to the version table in cleartext.\n\nThis issue affects ash_paper_trail: from 0.3.0 before 0.7.0.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":3,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":2.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}