Ash.Filter.Runtime materializes a combinatorial cross-product over to-many relationships, exhausting memory

Summary

CVECVE-2026-82742
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerEEF
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-09-01 04:18:04 UTC
Updated2026-09-01 21:15:00 UTC
DescriptionUncontrolled 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v4.0 5.9 MEDIUM from 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS: 0.001260000 probability, percentile 0.025950000 (date 2026-09-03)

Problem Types: CWE-400 | CWE-400 CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption


VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
4.06b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbSecondary5.9MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/C...
4.0CNACVSS5.9MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS v4.0 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
Present
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Sub Conf.
None
Sub Integrity
None
Sub Availability
None

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Ash-project Ash affected 1.29.0-rc0 3.32.2 semver Not specified
CNA Ash-project Ash affected f6f5d194bfc7802bd32e48bf2eabd2d97a0109a4 da07f009e889819ec410fa1f0f12534bfb9e21dd git Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-82742.html 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db cna.erlef.org
osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-82742 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db osv.dev
github.com/ash-project/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-mgwj-c69v-6f83 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db github.com
github.com/ash-project/ash/commit/da07f009e889819ec410fa1f0f12534bfb9e21dd 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: Peter Ullrich (en)

CNA: Zach Daniel / Ash Project (en)

CNA: Jonatan Männchen / EEF (en)

CNA: Peter Ullrich (en)

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