CVE-2026-69659
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
Summary
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ash-project ash allows an attacker to exhaust the memory of the node via a crafted keyset pagination cursor.
Read actions with keyset pagination deserialize the client-supplied page[:after] or page[:before] cursor in decode_values/2 in lib/ash/page/keyset.ex, which base64-decodes the value and passes it to :erlang.binary_to_term/2 without bounding its size. The Erlang external term format supports zlib-compressed payloads, which the decoder inflates transparently, so a cursor of a few kilobytes can allocate tens of megabytes of heap in a single call. Ash itself only ever encodes cursors uncompressed, so the decoder accepts a term shape its encoder never produces. Concurrent requests aggregate these allocations and can terminate the node.
This issue affects ash: from 1.17.0 before 3.31.1.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ash-project | ash | 1.17.0 < 3.31.1 | affected |
| ash-project | ash | f8fadc67e67c955bb68b3a8d642be13e2b7e8ca9 < 1816b103af975221210478d61db20adcea700319 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-502: CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
References
- https://github.com/ash-project/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-j35q-v8h8-7mwq
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-69659.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-69659
- https://github.com/ash-project/ash/commit/1816b103af975221210478d61db20adcea700319
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