CVE-2026-74837

Unbounded atom creation from client-supplied RPC field names in AshTypescript field formatter

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Sep 1, 2026
Updated
Sep 1, 2026
Reserved
Aug 30, 2026

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Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in ash-project ash_typescript allows an unauthenticated attacker to exhaust the BEAM atom table and abort the node via client-supplied RPC field names.

AshTypescript.FieldFormatter.convert_to_field_atom/2 in lib/ash_typescript/field_formatter.ex converts a client-supplied field name to an atom with String.to_atom/1 when no matching atom already exists. It delegates first to parse_input_field/2, which resolves the name with String.to_existing_atom/1 and falls back to returning the plain string; convert_to_field_atom/2 then mints an atom from that string rather than treating the name as unknown.

RPC field selection reaches it for every requested field name through AshTypescript.Rpc.FieldProcessing.FieldSelector, which resolves each name before checking that the field exists, with no allowlist, length bound, or rate limit. Atoms are never garbage collected, so each distinct name mints a permanent one and the VM aborts once the atom table limit is reached. A field name over 255 characters additionally raises an uncaught SystemLimitError.

This issue affects ash_typescript: from 0.1.0 before 0.18.0.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ash_typescriptash-project
  • 0.1.0 to before 0.18.0Affected
ash_typescriptash-project
  • 1a3d4c343430c8e4784acfcd33122a807fafa086 to before df95df4b9afdca5e5bbce32dbd566ccc49a7f14bAffected

References

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