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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.9 Medium

CVE-2026-82742

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

Description

Uncontrolled 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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

ash-project ash

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1.29.0-rc0 to < 3.32.2affected
pkg:hex/ash

ash-project ash

Default version status: unaffected

  • f6f5d194bfc7802bd32e48bf2eabd2d97a0109a4 to < da07f009e889819ec410fa1f0f12534bfb9e21ddaffected
pkg:github/ash-project/ash

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