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🛡️ CVE-2026-69659 — ash

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-502 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Memory exhaustion via unbounded deserialization of keyset pagination cursors in Ash.Page.Keyset

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.

Configuration

A read action must declare keyset? true in its pagination block, and the application must pass a client-supplied value as the :after or :before page option.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-69659 is classified as CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data. Serialised data from an untrusted source is reconstructed into objects, which can trigger code during the process.

Affected software

CVE-2026-69659 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • ash
  • ash-framework (from 1.17.0 up to 3.31.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 9 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Advisory)
cna.erlef.org (Web)
github.com (Fix)
hex.pm (Package)

Other advisories for this package

ash has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data) in other software:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-502
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-09
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-09

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ash — —
ash-framework 1.17.0 3.31.1

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