CVE-2026-86338: medium-severity vulnerability in ash-project ash
Ash field policies do not filter-nil forbidden calculations and aggregates, enabling an information-disclosure oracle
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6epss 0.4%
Ash field_policies are documented to protect against filter-based information disclosure: when a field the actor may not see is referenced in a filter, it is replaced with an expression that evaluates to nil, so a filter cannot be used as a yes/no oracle to read a value the actor cannot see.
This nilling was applied to attributes but not to calculations or aggregates. A user-supplied filter reference to a calculation or aggregate carries an Ash.Query.Calculation / Ash.Query.Aggregate struct, which the authorizer's reference replacement did not match (it only matched the Ash.Resource.* structs), so the filter ran against the real value.
As a result, an actor whose field policies forbid a calculation or aggregate can still filter by it (for example filter(secret_calc == "x") or filter(comment_count == n)) and learn the value from whether rows match — an oracle that recovers field-policy-protected values one probe at a time. Filtering is commonly exposed to lower-privileged actors (for example via AshGraphql or AshJsonApi filter arguments), which is exactly the surface field policies are meant to protect.
The fix routes filter references to calculations and aggregates through the same field-policy nilling as attributes.
This issue affects ash: from 2.11.0-rc.0 before 3.33.4.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
ash-project · ashRelated CVEs — ash-project ash
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2025-48044HIGHAuthorization bypass when bypass policy condition evaluates to trueEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-67579HIGHFilter expression injection via forged keyset pagination cursor in AshEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-34593HIGHAsh Framework: Ash.Type.Module.cast_input/2 atom exhaustion via unchecked Module.concat allows BEAM VM crashEPSS 0.4%CVE-2025-48043HIGHBypass and runtime policies that can never pass may be incorrectly applied in filter authorizationEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-69659MEDIUMMemory exhaustion via unbounded deserialization of keyset pagination cursors in Ash.Page.KeysetEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-101028MEDIUMAsh.count, Ash.exists and Ash.aggregate skip related resources' read policies in filters and sortsEPSS 0.3%
References
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-86338.htmlhttps://github.com/ash-project/ash/commit/0b6d93c7c4637280b46ae66ea1d2eaf013701238https://github.com/ash-project/ash/commit/b3d4503241f3deacb5ceb955e10a4fa927da0f67https://github.com/ash-project/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-7qr8-wrvq-566qhttps://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-86338