CVE-2026-77454 PUBLISHED

exists/2 predicate silently dropped on limited relationships with a parent() filter in AshSql

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 30.08.2026 Published: 30.08.2026 Updated: 30.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 5.9

Product Status

Vendor ash-project
Product ash_sql
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.4.1 to 0.7.1 (excl.)
Vendor ash-project
Product ash_sql
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e26a63b29bd7501505fafd726f14262cdc3b6629 to 865fdd4e5e70724a23b19c048e6768c31d2209ab (excl.)

Affected Configurations

An application must use exists/2 (in a filter or a policy) over a relationship that declares both a limit or from_many? and a filter or sort that references parent(...). The predicate supplied to exists/2 is the one that is dropped.

Credits

  • Peter Ullrich finder
  • Peter Ullrich reporter
  • Zach Daniel / Ash Project remediation developer
  • Jonatan Männchen / EEF coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs