CVE-2026-67579

Filter expression injection via forged keyset pagination cursor in Ash

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Aug 12, 2026
Updated
Aug 13, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in ash-project ash allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject a filter expression through a forged keyset pagination cursor, resulting in SQL injection or code execution depending on the data layer.

Read actions with keyset pagination decode the client-supplied page[:after] or page[:before] cursor in decode_values/2 in lib/ash/page/keyset.ex using non_executable_binary_to_term/2 with [:safe]. That guard blocks new atoms, funs, and ports, but not a struct built from atoms already interned in a running Ash application, so a decoded %Ash.Query.Call{} expression survives and is spliced into the keyset filter as a comparison value in do_filters/4 and evaluated. Because the cursor bypasses the Ash.Expr macro, the runtime never applies the private?/public? gate that would otherwise reject it. On AshPostgres the injected fragment is inlined into the SQL query; on the ETS and Simple data layers it is evaluated in-process as an arbitrary function call.

This issue affects ash: from 1.17.0 before 3.31.3.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.5 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NEEF

Weaknesses

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ashash-project
  • 1.17.0 to before 3.31.3Affected
ashash-project
  • f8fadc67e67c955bb68b3a8d642be13e2b7e8ca9 to before 91874dd5435bc0ffebd8a254acfa573b39b74520Affected

References

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