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

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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

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ashash-project
  • 1.29.0-rc0 to before 3.32.2Affected
ashash-project
  • f6f5d194bfc7802bd32e48bf2eabd2d97a0109a4 to before da07f009e889819ec410fa1f0f12534bfb9e21ddAffected

References

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