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Description
Permissive Regular Expression vulnerability in ash-project ash_phoenix lets a remote client select the tenant an Ash application uses, or degrade the request, by sending a crafted Host header.
AshPhoenix.Helpers.get_subdomain/2 stripped the root domain with String.replace(host, ~r/.?#{root_host}/, ""). The root host was interpolated raw, so each . became a wildcard and any metacharacter a pattern, and the replace was global and unanchored, so a match was removed from anywhere in the string. With root_host example.com, Host: foo.exampleXcom.attacker.net returned the tenant foo.attacker.net. A metacharacter-bearing or nil root host degraded the pattern or raised on every request. The comparison was also case-sensitive, so TENANT.EXAMPLE.COM and EXAMPLE.COM slipped past the root-host allowlist. conn.host comes from the client Host header. The fix matches the root host case-insensitively and only as an exact trailing suffix.
This issue affects ash_phoenix: from 2.1.26 before 2.3.25.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-625
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Permissive Regular Expression
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
CWE-178
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Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-153
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Input Data Manipulation
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / ash_phoenix Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash_phoenix Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Configurations
The application uses subdomain-based multitenancy via AshPhoenix.Helpers.get_subdomain/2 (for example through AshPhoenix.LiveView.SubdomainHook) to select the tenant from the request host.
References
Credits
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N