CVE-2026-67579 — ash-hq / ash_framework
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in ash-project ash allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject a filter expression through a forged keyset pagination cursor, resulting in SQL injection or code execution depending on the data layer.
Read actions with keyset pagination decode the client-supplied page[:after] or page[:before] cursor in decode_values/2 in lib/ash/page/keyset.ex using non_executable_binary_to_term/2 with [:safe]. That guard blocks new atoms, funs, and ports, but not a struct built from atoms already interned in a running Ash application, so a decoded %Ash.Query.Call{} expression survives and is spliced into the keyset filter as a comparison value in do_filters/4 and evaluated. Because the cursor bypasses the Ash.Expr macro, the runtime never applies the private?/public? gate that would otherwise reject it. On AshPostgres the injected fragment is inlined into the SQL query; on the ETS and Simple data layers it is evaluated in-process as an arbitrary function call.
This issue affects ash: from 1.17.0 before 3.31.3.
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
| ash-hq / ash_framework | >= 1.17.0, < 3.31.3 |
| ash-project / ash | >= 1.17.0, < 3.31.3 |
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