CVE-2026-77454

Medium

Description

Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in ash-project ash_sql allows a caller to bypass a scoping or authorization filter expressed as exists/2 over a relationship that declares both a limit (or from_many?) and a parent(...)-referencing filter or sort. AshSql.Join.related_query/3 skips the caller-supplied exists predicate for such relationships and delegates it to limit_from_many/5. When the relationship's own filter or sort references parent(...), limit_from_many/5 takes a branch that drops both the limit and the predicate, emitting a bare correlated EXISTS with no predicate. The check then matches any record that has any related row. Most severely, when the expression backs a policy (for example authorize_if expr(exists(memberships, user_id == ^actor(:id)))), the actor-scoping condition disappears and the policy passes for any actor with any related row. This issue affects ash_sql: from 0.4.1 before 0.7.1.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.9
Exploit probability—
ProductAsh-project Ash Sql
PublishedAug 30, 2026
First seenAug 30, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • ash-project ash_sql0.7.1, 865fdd4e5e70724a23b19c048e6768c31d2209ab or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
ash-project ash_sql0.4.1 ≤ v < 0.7.1, e26a63b29bd7501505fafd726f14262cdc3b6629 ≤ v < 865fdd4e5e70724a23b19c048e6768c31d2209ab0.7.1, 865fdd4e5e70724a23b19c048e6768c31d2209ab

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