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Description
Improper Access Control vulnerability in ash-project ash lets a create action overwrite an existing record when the ETS or Mnesia data layer is used, because neither enforced primary-key uniqueness on insert.
Unlike a SQL data layer, whose unique primary-key constraint rejects a duplicate, the ETS and Mnesia data layers implemented create as a keyed insert that replaces any existing entry with the same primary key (lib/ash/data_layer/ets/ets.ex, lib/ash/data_layer/mnesia/mnesia.ex). An actor who can set the primary key on a create (for example a user-supplied string or integer key) can submit a create whose key matches an existing record and silently overwrite it, destroying and replacing another entity's data without going through the update action or its policies. The fix rejects a create whose primary key already exists with an already-taken error, and only allows duplicates for keyless resources.
This issue affects ash: from 0.4.0 before 3.32.2.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-284
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Improper Access Control
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-1
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Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / ash Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
References
GHSA-92x7-q3h5-wf88 ↗
vendor-advisory
EEF-CVE-2026-82745 ↗
related
Credits
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N