CVE-2026-82743
Ash.Actions.Read.AsyncLimiter busy-spins a scheduler while awaiting slow async reads
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 2.1 Low
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 1, 2026
- Reserved
- Aug 31, 2026
Description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ash-project ash lets a slow asynchronous read spin a scheduler thread at full CPU while the framework waits for it.
Ash.Actions.Read.AsyncLimiter.await_at_least_one/1 (lib/ash/actions/read/async_limiter.ex) waited for concurrent async read tasks by polling each with Task.yield(task, 0) in a tight loop rather than blocking. While every outstanding task is still running (a slow related-data load or calculation), the loop returns immediately and repeats, busy-spinning and holding a BEAM scheduler at full CPU for the whole duration of the slow read; concurrent slow reads tie up further schedulers. The fix waits with Task.yield_many (a non-blocking sweep followed by a blocking wait with timeout: :infinity), so the process sleeps until a task completes instead of spinning.
This issue affects ash: from 2.19.0 before 3.32.2.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 2.1 Low | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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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