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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
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Incorrect Comparison
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-3
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Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / ash_sql Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash_sql Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
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
GHSA-76wx-w7ww-5xfq ↗
vendor-advisory
EEF-CVE-2026-80227 ↗
related
Credits
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