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CVE-2026-86338: CWE-1220 Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in ash-project ash

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-86338cvecve-2026-86338cwe-1220
Published: 09/16/2026 (09/16/2026, 08:28:44 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: ash-project
Product: ash

Description

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 v4.0

Score 6.0medium

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

ash-project

ash

Affected versions
>=2.11.0-rc.0 <3.33.4

ash-project

ash

ash
pkg:hex/ash
Affected versions
>=2.11.0-rc.0 <3.33.4
GitHub Actionsmore threats →cve
ash-project/ash
pkg:github/ash-project/ash
CPE configurations
cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
EEF
Date Reserved
2026-09-15T15:30:01.895Z
Cvss Version
4.0
State
PUBLISHED

Threat ID: 6aaa578b55bf5e2cf540b202

Added to database: 09/16/2026, 08:47:07 UTC

Last updated: 09/16/2026, 08:47:07 UTC

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