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CVE-2026-78228: CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion in ash-project ash_oban

0
Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-78228cvecve-2026-78228cwe-674
Published: 08/30/2026 (08/30/2026, 11:51:49 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: ash-project
Product: ash_oban

Description

Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in ash-project ash_oban allows a user who can drive a trigger's on_error action to fail on the final attempt to exhaust worker CPU and memory, denying service. The generated worker's atomic handle_error/4 runs the trigger's on_error action on a job's final attempt inside a rescue that, when the action itself raises, calls handle_error/4 again with the same job. The job's attempt still equals max_attempts, so it re-enters the same clause and re-runs the failing action, with no exit. Any deterministic on_error failure (a data-layer outage, a misconfigured action, or a record the action rejects) loops forever; because the recursive call is not in tail position, each iteration retains a formatted stacktrace and the process heap grows without bound while the failing statement is re-issued against the data layer until the runtime kills the worker. This issue affects ash_oban: from 0.8.0-rc.1 before 0.8.14.

CVSS v4.0

Score 5.9medium

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
Present
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Vuln. Confidentiality
None
Vuln. Integrity
None
Vuln. Availability
High
Subsq. Confidentiality
None
Subsq. Integrity
None
Subsq. Availability
None
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

Affected software

ash_oban
pkg:hex/ash_oban
GitHub Actionsmore threats →cve
ash-project/ash_oban
pkg:github/ash-project/ash_oban
CPE configurations
cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_oban:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
EEF
Date Reserved
2026-08-30T00:00:01.991Z
Cvss Version
4.0
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a941d0cacd9273b4981c0ce

Added to database: 08/30/2026, 12:07:40 UTC

Last updated: 08/30/2026, 12:52:25 UTC

Views: 6

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