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.
Published: 2026-10-06
Score: 6.3 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Workaround

Override dump/1 in the field module that uses Cloak.Ecto.PBKDF2, so that it calls :pbkdf2.pbkdf2/5 with the configured :iterations and :size. Then recompute all stored hashes, because the existing values no longer match.

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History

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Cloak PBKDF2 field ignores the configured iteration count and runs only :size rounds
First Time appeared Danielberkompas
Danielberkompas cloak
Danielberkompas cloak Ecto
Weaknesses CWE-916
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:danielberkompas:cloak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:danielberkompas:cloak_ecto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Danielberkompas
Danielberkompas cloak
Danielberkompas cloak Ecto
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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Danielberkompas Cloak Cloak Ecto
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: EEF

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-06T11:36:25.466Z

Reserved: 2026-09-24T09:30:02.102Z

Link: CVE-2026-94206

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-06T09:17:56.813

Modified: 2026-10-06T09:17:56.813

Link: CVE-2026-94206

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