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Description

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in ash-project ash_typescript allows a remote attacker to submit argument values outside a declared allowlist or bound on typed-controller routes.

AshTypescript.TypedController.RequestHandler in lib/ash_typescript/typed_controller/request_handler.ex calls Ash.Type.cast_input/3 and treats an {:ok, cast} result as fully validated. In Ash these are separate steps: cast_input/3 only coerces the term, while every constraint declared on the argument is applied by Ash.Type.apply_constraints/3, which this path never calls. Constraints such as one_of, max_length, min and max, and match are therefore inert, so a value outside a declared allowlist is accepted and passed to the route handler. Codegen renders the same constraints into the generated TypeScript types, so an allowlist appears enforced to a TypeScript caller while any other HTTP client ignores it. Empty-string to nil normalization also lives in apply_constraints, so the allow_nil?: false check accepts "" for a required argument.

Where a constraint gates a role, a status, or a sort direction, this becomes a privilege or state-machine bypass.

This issue affects ash_typescript: from 0.15.0 before 0.18.0.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-153 · Input Data Manipulation MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / ash_typescript Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

0.15.0 < 0.18.0 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_typescript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshTypescript.TypedController.RequestHandler'
source files lib/ash_typescript/typed_controller/request_handler.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshTypescript.TypedController.RequestHandler':cast_arguments/2 · 'Elixir.AshTypescript.TypedController.RequestHandler':handle/4

Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash_typescript Repository ↗

546a15e < 21ab6f1 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_typescript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshTypescript.TypedController.RequestHandler'
source files lib/ash_typescript/typed_controller/request_handler.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshTypescript.TypedController.RequestHandler':cast_arguments/2 · 'Elixir.AshTypescript.TypedController.RequestHandler':handle/4

Configurations

The application exposes an AshTypescript typed controller over HTTP with at least one route argument carrying a constraints declaration that gates application behaviour.

References

Credits

Peter Ullrich Finder Reporter
Torkild Gundersen Kjevik / Ash Project Remediation developer
Jonatan Männchen / EEF Coordinator

CVSS breakdown

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