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Description

Not Failing Securely (Failing Open) vulnerability in ash-project ash skips an Ash.Reactor change when the guard controlling it raises, so a change meant to run does not.

An Ash.Reactor change step can be gated by where validations that decide whether the change runs. Ash.Reactor.ChangeStep (lib/ash/reactor/steps/change_step.ex) evaluated those guards in apply_where_clauses/3, and apply_validation rescued any exception into {:error, error}. The reduce treated that identically to a guard whose condition was simply not met and bypassed the change. So when a guard raises (for example on attacker-influenced input), a change that enforces a security-relevant modification is skipped rather than failing the step. The fix distinguishes a raised exception (now {:raised, error}) and halts the step with an error, failing closed.

This issue affects ash: from 3.0.0-rc.17 before 3.32.2.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-636 · Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open') in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-153 · Input Data Manipulation MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / ash Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

3.0.0-rc.17 < 3.32.2 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.Ash.Reactor.ChangeStep'
source files lib/ash/reactor/steps/change_step.ex
routines 'Elixir.Ash.Reactor.ChangeStep':apply_where_clauses/3

Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash Repository ↗

321f43b < 6d2eb86 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.Ash.Reactor.ChangeStep'
source files lib/ash/reactor/steps/change_step.ex
routines 'Elixir.Ash.Reactor.ChangeStep':apply_where_clauses/3

References

Credits

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

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
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