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Description
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in ash-project ash allows an actor to infer data in related records they cannot read via Ash.count/2, Ash.exists/2 and Ash.aggregate/3.
Ash.Actions.Aggregate.run/4 (lib/ash/actions/aggregate.ex) applied only the root resource's read policy before running the aggregate query. The read path also applies each related resource's read policy to filter and sort references that cross a relationship, directly (for example comments.body) or through an aggregate over one, but the aggregate path skipped that step. A caller whose filter or sort reaches these functions, for example through Ash.Query.filter_input/2, an ash_lua script, or an AshAi tool offering count or exists results, can test conditions against related rows hidden from them and recover their existence and attribute values one query at a time. Ash.read/2 and its page counts are not affected.
This issue affects ash: from 2.6.0 before 3.34.6.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-863
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Incorrect Authorization
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-1
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Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / ash Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Configurations
Reachable only when an application passes caller-supplied filters or sorts that cross a relationship into Ash.count/2, Ash.exists/2 or Ash.aggregate/3 (directly, through ash_lua read operations, or through AshAi count, exists or aggregate result types), and a related resource's read policy is stricter than the root resource's.
References
Credits
CVSS breakdown
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