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Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in ash-project ash_typescript allows an unauthenticated attacker to exhaust the BEAM atom table and abort the node via client-supplied typed struct field names.
resolve_typed_struct_field/2 in lib/ash_typescript/rpc/field_processing/field_selector.ex looks a client-supplied field name up in the typed struct's reverse map and, when it finds no match, falls back to String.to_atom/1. Because this runs before any field-existence check, an unresolvable name mints a permanent atom rather than being rejected as unknown. Atoms are never garbage collected, so a request carrying many distinct names on a typed struct field grows the atom table until the VM aborts at its limit.
This issue affects ash_typescript: from 0.11.0 before 0.18.0.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-770
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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-130
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Excessive Allocation
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / ash_typescript Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash_typescript Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Configurations
The application exposes an AshTypescript RPC endpoint over HTTP and has at least one resource field backed by an Ash.TypedStruct, so that client-supplied names reach resolve_typed_struct_field/2.
References
Credits
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N