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Description
Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in ash-project ash discloses the stored value of a confirmed field to an actor who fails its confirmation check.
Ash.Resource.Validation.Confirm's atomic implementation (atomic/2 in lib/ash/resource/validation/confirm.ex) built the mismatch error with its value set to the field being confirmed. When the actor supplies only the confirmation argument and not the field itself, value resolves through atomic_ref/2 to the field's current stored value, so the mismatch error echoes that stored value back to the actor. Against a confirmation guarding a sensitive attribute, an actor can submit a deliberately wrong confirmation and read the real value from the returned error. The fix reports the actor-supplied confirmation in the error instead of the stored field value.
This issue affects ash: from 2.17.20 before 3.32.2.
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 Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
References
GHSA-66cg-vj5m-8w7v ↗
vendor-advisory
EEF-CVE-2026-82739 ↗
related
Credits
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N