EEF-CVE-2026-78228 CVE-2026-78228 GHSA-94p7-498r-mrhp
Unbounded handle_error recursion enables denial of service in AshOban triggers
- Severity
- 0.0 / 10
- Unknown · CVSS 4.0
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 0.18%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 7.56% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
- Fix
0.8.14- Upgrade ash_oban to this version or later
Description
Summary
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in ash-project ash_oban allows a user who can drive a trigger's on_error action to fail on the final attempt to exhaust worker CPU and memory, denying service.
The generated worker's atomic handle_error/4 runs the trigger's on_error action on a job's final attempt inside a rescue that, when the action itself raises, calls handle_error/4 again with the same job. The job's attempt still equals max_attempts, so it re-enters the same clause and re-runs the failing action, with no exit. Any deterministic on_error failure (a data-layer outage, a misconfigured action, or a record the action rejects) loops forever; because the recursive call is not in tail position, each iteration retains a formatted stacktrace and the process heap grows without bound while the failing statement is re-issued against the data layer until the runtime kills the worker.
This issue affects ash_oban: from 0.8.0-rc.1 before 0.8.14.
Configurations
A trigger must declare an on_error action and run through the atomic worker branch. An attacker needs only to drive that on_error action into a deterministic failure (for example by pushing the record into a state the action rejects) and let the job reach its final attempt.
Affected versions
Hex
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| ash_oban | >= 0.8.0-rc.1, < 0.8.14 |
0.8.14 |
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
ash_oban Hex → 0.8.14
- mix
{:ash_oban, "~> 0.8.14"} # then: mix deps.update ash_oban
Severity breakdown
CVSS 4.0 0.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
- None
- Integrity (vulnerable system)
- None
- Availability (vulnerable system)
- High
- Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
- None
- Integrity (subsequent systems)
- None
- Availability (subsequent systems)
- None
Weakness
CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
How to prevent it
- Implementation: Ensure that an end condition will be reached under all logic conditions. The end condition may include checking against the depth of recursion and exiting with an error if the recursion goes too deep. The complexity of the end condition contributes to the effectiveness of this action.
- Implementation: Increase the stack size.
References
Advisories
Fixes and patches
Packages
Other links
Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| EEF-CVE-2026-78038 Job argument injection via :args overrides primary_key and tenant in AshOban | Not rated yet | Also affects ash_oban |
| GHSA-hqq3-7jhf-c5jx Forge: Denial of service in TLS record processing via call stack exhaustion | High | Same weakness, CWE-674 |
| GHSA-wwpr-jff3-395c Crass: A large number of adjacent CSS comments can trigger a SystemStackError | Medium | Same weakness, CWE-674 |
| GHSA-6jxj-px6v-747w Crass: Deeply nested CSS blocks and functions can trigger a SystemStackError or excessive memory usage | Medium | Same weakness, CWE-674 |
| GHSA-vvm8-gf78-28g4 Go JOSE: Panics in JSON parsing | Medium | Same weakness, CWE-674 |
| EEF-CVE-2026-65628 Infinite recursion (CPU denial-of-service) in JOSE.JWK.shared_secret/2 on mismatched key types | Not rated yet | Same weakness, CWE-674 |
| GHSA-c9rx-x947-fp3h ApostropheCMS sanitize-html: unbounded recursion when re-sanitizing the fallback of a discarded iframe (stack overflow, nestingLimit not enforced) | Medium | Same weakness, CWE-674 |
| GHSA-6wmf-3r64-vcwv Crass : Large numeric exponents cause CPU and memory denial of service | High | Same weakness, CWE-674 |
Credits: Jonatan Männchen / EEF, Peter Ullrich, Zach Daniel / Ash Project
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