Description
Ash Framework is a declarative, extensible framework for building Elixir applications. Prior to version 3.22.0, Ash.Type.Module.cast_input/2 unconditionally creates a new Erlang atom via Module.concat([value]) for any user-supplied binary string that starts with "Elixir.", before verifying whether the referenced module exists. Because Erlang atoms are never garbage-collected and the BEAM atom table has a hard default limit of approximately 1,048,576 entries, an attacker who can submit values to any resource attribute or argument of type :module can exhaust this table and crash the entire BEAM VM, taking down the application. This issue has been patched in version 3.22.0.
Problem types
CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Product status
References
github.com/...ct/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-jjf9-w5vj-r6vp
github.com/...ct/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-jjf9-w5vj-r6vp
github.com/ash-project/ash/releases/tag/v3.22.0