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CVE-2026-105963EUVD-2026-108666EEF-CVE-2026-105963GHSA-FFW9-W85G-F2VH

Secret key base exposed in stack trace arguments on wrong-typed Plug.Crypto arguments

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Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.7.0, 2.2.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

The plug_crypto library (used by the Plug and Phoenix web frameworks for Elixir) is affected, along with the Plug package that depends on it. When certain functions receive an argument of the wrong type, the resulting error can write sensitive values such as the application's secret key base into application logs and error tracking systems, where anyone with access to those logs could read them.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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Externally-Generated Error Message Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in plug_crypto in elixir-plug plug_crypto allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to expose the secret key base through application logs via a wrong-typed argument. Every public function in Plug.Crypto validates argument types in a function-head guard. A failed guard makes the Erlang VM raise FunctionClauseError with the actual argument values in the top stack frame, so the secret key base, a derived key, or the value an API key is compared against lands in that frame. The library's rescue blocks and Plug.Crypto.prune_args_from_stacktrace/1 only reach exceptions raised inside a function body, so they never see a guard failure. Plug.Cowboy and Bandit write the frame to the error log and attach it as crash_reason Logger metadata, which error trackers forward. Two entry points take request data. Plug.Crypto.verify/4 exposes the secret key base when the token is neither a binary nor nil, which Phoenix.Token.verify/4 reaches because it forwards the token unguarded. Plug.Crypto.secure_compare/2 exposes the other operand when one side is not a binary, as happens when a missing request header yields nil. Reading the leaked value needs separate access to the logs or the error tracker, so the request alone does not disclose the secret to the attacker. This issue affects plug: from 1.6.3 before 1.7.0; plug_crypto: from 1.0.0 before 2.2.1.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • plug

    From 1.6.3 · fixed in 1.7.0

  • elixir-plug/plug

    From 56000c33d8a0a2fbac491f8be06b9c5112bc2276 · fixed in *

  • plug_crypto

    From 1.0.0 · fixed in 2.2.1

  • elixir-plug/plug_crypto

    From 2d078b7b8264c565f0ff71235c515f4f46882dcf · fixed in 981887493dada0fce7003c61861c00dfbb0fc8c5

  • plugHex

    From 1.6.3 · fixed in 1.7.0

  • plug_cryptoHex

    From 1.0.0 · fixed in 2.2.1

References 7

GitHub · elixir-plug/plug

cna.erlef.org

osv.dev

GitHub · elixir-plug/plug_crypto