CVE-2026-78216 PUBLISHED

AshLua eval read operations can read field-policy-protected fields via aggregates

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 31.08.2026 Published: 08.09.2026 Updated: 08.09.2026

AshLua exposes Ash read actions to Lua scripts run through an eval action. A read call accepts an operation (list, min, max, first, sum, avg) that builds an ad-hoc Ash.Query.Aggregate over a named field and returns its raw value.

Ash field policies redact forbidden fields on returned records (replacing them with %Ash.ForbiddenField{}), but that redaction does not apply to aggregate values. A script could therefore read a field the calling actor's field policies forbid by requesting it as an aggregate instead of as a field. This includes fields that are public? true but restricted per-actor by a field policy, such as sensitive PII. The prior hardening only enforced the exposed-field allow-list (field visibility), which is a separate axis from per-actor field-policy authorization.

The fix authorizes the aggregated field against the resource's field policies, so aggregating over a field the actor may not see is refused or scoped to the rows where it is visible.

This issue affects ash_lua: from 0.1.0 before 0.2.2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6

Product Status

Vendor ash-project
Product ash_lua
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.1.0 to 0.2.2 (excl.)
Vendor ash-project
Product ash_lua
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8675e47cca81f36594083a7e63379bac9e123e72 to 266a5dcc56d5015b6d316c10606169e753b07450 (excl.)

Affected Configurations

Reachable only when an application exposes an AshLua eval action over a resource whose field policies restrict a field that the calling actor can still name as an operation aggregate (for example a public? true but field-policy-protected attribute).

Credits

  • Zach Daniel / Ash Project remediation developer
  • Jonatan Männchen / EEF coordinator
  • Aaron Hong / Remedy finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-1220 Insufficient Granularity of Access Control CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs