CVE-2026-82742
Ash.Filter.Runtime materializes a combinatorial cross-product over to-many relationships, exhausting memory
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.9 Medium
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 1, 2026
- Reserved
- Aug 31, 2026
Description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ash-project ash lets an attacker exhaust node memory by matching a filter that spans multiple to-many relationships in memory.
Ash.Filter.Runtime matches a filter against an in-memory record by first expanding the record into combinations of its related rows. flatten_relationships/2 (lib/ash/filter/runtime.ex) eagerly built the full Cartesian product across the filter's to-many relationship paths, so a record with K to-many relationships of M rows each materialized on the order of M^K scenarios before any predicate was checked. A filter or dataset that reaches several sizeable to-many relationships therefore allocates memory combinatorially and can exhaust the node. The fix streams the expansion lazily and short-circuits on the first matching scenario, bounding the work.
This issue affects ash: from 1.29.0-rc0 before 3.32.2.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 5.9 Medium | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | EEF |
Weaknesses
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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ashash-project |
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ashash-project |
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References
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