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Description
Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in ash-project ash_typescript allows an unauthenticated attacker to read internal application data from an HTTP 500 response body.
When a typed-controller route handler returns anything other than a %Plug.Conn{}, dispatch/3 in lib/ash_typescript/typed_controller/request_handler.ex passes the value to unexpected_return/2, which interpolates inspect(value, limit: 50) directly into the response message. The limit option bounds elements per collection rather than the term as a whole, so a handler falling through with a term such as {:error, %User{}} or a changeset serialises its full field set, including hashed passwords, tokens, and tenant identifiers, into the JSON error returned to the caller.
This contradicts the module's own posture elsewhere: the rescue clause gates Exception.message/1 behind AshTypescript.typed_controller_show_raised_errors?/0 and otherwise returns a generic message, while this path is ungated and always echoes.
This issue affects ash_typescript: from 0.15.0 before 0.18.0.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-209
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Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-54
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Query System for Information
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 typed controller over HTTP with a route handler that can return a non-Plug.Conn term carrying sensitive data.
References
Credits
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N