CVE-2026-69659
mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.004 · 29 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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advisories (1)
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- EEF-CVE-2026-69659Memory exhaustion via unbounded deserialization of keyset pagination cursors in Ash.Page.Keyset2026-08-09vendor · osvUS
## 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. ## Configurations 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.
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references (12)
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- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-69659.htmlcnnvd
- https://github.com/ash-project/ash/commit/1816b103af975221210478d61db20adcea700319cnnvd
- https://github.com/ash-project/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-j35q-v8h8-7mwqcnnvd
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-69659cnnvd
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-69659.htmlenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/ash-project/ash/commit/1816b103af975221210478d61db20adcea700319enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/ash-project/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-j35q-v8h8-7mwqenisa_euvd
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-69659enisa_euvd
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