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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 · Permissive Regular Expression in catalog → MITRE ↗
CWE-178 · Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-153 · Input Data Manipulation MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / ash_phoenix Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

2.1.26 < 2.3.25 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_phoenix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshPhoenix.Helpers'
source files lib/ash_phoenix/helpers.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshPhoenix.Helpers':get_subdomain/2

Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash_phoenix Repository ↗

9a5ea4d < 8306f29 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_phoenix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshPhoenix.Helpers'
source files lib/ash_phoenix/helpers.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshPhoenix.Helpers':get_subdomain/2

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

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

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
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