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Description

Incorrect Comparison vulnerability in ash-project ash_sql allows a user to pad a string field with tab, newline, carriage-return, or form-feed characters and pass a trimmed uniqueness or equality check in the database that the same expression would fail in memory (or the reverse).

string_trim/1 compiles to REGEXP_REPLACE patterns built from an Elixir string in which \s is the escape for a single space (codepoint 32), not a regex whitespace class. The generated SQL therefore removes only literal spaces and leaves tabs, newlines, carriage returns, and form feeds in place, whereas String.trim/1 in Elixir removes them all. Any Ash filter, validation, or identity that relies on string_trim/1 then behaves differently depending on whether Ash pushes the expression down to SQL or evaluates it in memory, so padded input can register a near-duplicate value or slip past a trimmed comparison.

This issue affects ash_sql: from 0.1.0 before 0.7.1.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-697 · Incorrect Comparison in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-3 · Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / ash_sql Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

0.1.0 < 0.7.1 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_sql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshSql.Expr'
source files lib/expr.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshSql.Expr':do_dynamic_expr/6

Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash_sql Repository ↗

dd092ed < 1b11b5d affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_sql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshSql.Expr'
source files lib/expr.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshSql.Expr':do_dynamic_expr/6

Configurations

An application must use string_trim/1 in a filter, validation, calculation, or identity that an attacker-influenced string field flows through, where the trimmed value is compared for equality or uniqueness.

References

Credits

Peter Ullrich Finder Reporter
Zach Daniel / Ash Project Remediation developer
Jonatan Männchen / EEF Coordinator

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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