CVE-2026-82737

Ash.Vector wraps the 16-bit dimension header for vectors over 65,535 elements, corrupting data and crashing reads

State
Published
Severity
5.9 Medium
Published
Sep 1, 2026
Updated
Sep 1, 2026
Reserved
Aug 31, 2026

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Description

Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability in ash-project ash lets an attacker corrupt a stored vector and crash later reads of it by submitting a vector with more than 65,535 elements.

Ash.Vector.new/1 (lib/ash/vector.ex) encodes a vector as <<dim::unsigned-16, 0::unsigned-16>> followed by the element floats, packing the element count into a 16-bit field without checking its range. A list of more than 65,535 elements wraps the dimension modulo 65,536, so the encoded header records a dimension that disagrees with the number of stored floats. from_binary/1 later reads binary-size(dim)-unit(32) from the wrapped header, so every read of the corrupted value misparses and raises, denying access to the affected record. The fix rejects any vector whose dimension exceeds 65,535.

This issue affects ash: from 2.14.13 before 3.32.2.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ashash-project
  • 2.14.13 to before 3.32.2Affected
ashash-project
  • e2855843ca4a9141dcd7f40f47227e13b43f0e00 to before cef5eb7b0693f04d1699a36e02a4e09ce1e7bffeAffected

References

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