CVE-2026-81638

## 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. `AshDoubleEntry.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. This issue affects ash_double_entry: from 0.1.0 before 1.0.19. ## Configurations Reachable only when an application exposes `AshDoubleEntry.ULID` as a public identifier over an HTTP or API boundary and performs string-level checks on the submitted ID (idempotency or deduplication keys, deny-lists, audit correlation, or signatures) rather than treating the value as opaque.