Ash.Actions.Read.AsyncLimiter busy-spins a scheduler while awaiting slow async reads

Summary

CVECVE-2026-82743
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 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v4.0 2.1 LOW from 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db

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/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 0.025990000 (date 2026-09-01)

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


VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
4.06b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbSecondary2.1LOWCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/C...
4.0CNACVSS2.1LOWCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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
Low
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:L/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 2.19.0 3.32.2 semver Not specified
CNA Ash-project Ash affected c48cb08026cf56b1ac33209203bc9c00061b40b8 0a5ecd2ffdfa848afdeb8827f02982ef2a63a1cd git Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
github.com/ash-project/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-33wq-x3q2-c92h 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 github.com
cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-82743.html 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db cna.erlef.org
osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-82743 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db osv.dev
github.com/ash-project/ash/commit/0a5ecd2ffdfa848afdeb8827f02982ef2a63a1cd 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: Zach Daniel / Ash Project (en)

CNA: Peter Ullrich (en)

CNA: Jonatan Männchen / EEF (en)

CNA: Peter Ullrich (en)

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