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EEF-CVE-2026-81318 CVE-2026-81318 GHSA-ww8j-58rc-f8h3

Distinct-query aggregate drops the tenant schema prefix, leaking across tenants in AshSql

Not rated yet Hex
Severity
0.0 / 10
Unknown · CVSS 4.0
Exploit chance (EPSS)
0.17%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 6.42% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
Fix
0.7.1
Upgrade ash_sql to this version or later

Description

Summary

Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in ash-project ash_sql allows a caller in a schema-based multitenant application to receive aggregate values computed from another tenant's rows.

When an aggregate is computed over a distinct query, AshSql.AggregateQuery.add_single_aggs/5 rebuilds the outer query from query.from.source alone, which is only the {table, schema} tuple and does not carry query.prefix or query.from.prefix. For strategy(:context) multitenancy those hold the tenant schema, so the rebuilt outer query reads the repo's default schema while the inner correlated subquery still reads the tenant schema, and the two are joined only on primary key. The aggregate, and any relationship join added off the prefix-less binding, is then computed against the wrong tenant's rows. The neighbouring limit and exists branches instead wrap the query with subquery/1, which preserves the prefix.

This issue affects ash_sql: from 0.1.0 before 0.7.1.

Configurations

An application must use AshPostgres schema-based (strategy(:context)) multitenancy and compute an aggregate over a distinct query (for example an aggregate whose query filters across a to-many relationship).

Affected versions

Hex

PackageVulnerableFixed in
ash_sql
>= 0.1.0, < 0.7.1
0.7.1

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_sql Hex → 0.7.1

mix
{:ash_sql, "~> 0.7.1"} # then: mix deps.update ash_sql

Severity breakdown

CVSS 4.0 0.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
Present
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
Low
Integrity (vulnerable system)
None
Availability (vulnerable system)
None
Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
None
Integrity (subsequent systems)
None
Availability (subsequent systems)
None

Weakness

CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check.

How to prevent it
  • Architecture and Design: Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) [REF-229] to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries. Note that this approach may not protect against horizontal authorization, i.e., it will not protect a user from attacking others with the same role.
  • Architecture and Design: Ensure that access control checks are performed related to the business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that are applied to more generic resources such as files, connections, processes, memory, and database records. For example, a database may restrict access for medical records to a specific database user, but each record might only be intended to be accessible to the patient and the patient's doctor [REF-7].
  • Architecture and Design: Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid. For example, consider using authorization frameworks such as the JAAS Authorization Framework [REF-233] and the OWASP ESAPI Access Control feature [REF-45].
  • Architecture and Design: For web applications, make sure that the access control mechanism is enforced correctly at the server side on every page. Users should not be able to access any unauthorized functionality or information by simply requesting direct access to that page. One way to do this is to ensure that all pages containing sensitive information are not cached, and that all such pages restrict access to requests that are accompanied by an active and authenticated session token associated with a user who has the required permissions to access that page.
  • System Configuration, Installation: Use the access control capabilities of your operating system and server environment and define your access control lists accordingly. Use a "default deny" policy when defining these ACLs.

References

Timeline

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exists/2 predicate silently dropped on limited relationships with a parent() filter in AshSql
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Same-named aggregates with differing filters are conflated in AshSql
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EEF-CVE-2026-115627
AshPostgres ignores attribute multitenancy on the join resource when loading many_to_many and through relationships, returning records related through other tenants' rows
Not rated yet Same weakness, CWE-863
EEF-CVE-2026-115635
AshPostgres returns another tenant's record for a skipped upsert when return_skipped_upsert? is set
Not rated yet Same weakness, CWE-863
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Loading a through relationship with a limit of 1 in Ash ignores the through path and returns unrelated destination records
Not rated yet Same weakness, CWE-863

Credits: Jonatan Männchen / EEF, Peter Ullrich, Zach Daniel / Ash Project

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