CVE-2026-78230 PUBLISHED

AshAi aggregate tool can read field-policy-protected fields

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

AshAi exposes Ash read actions to language-model tool calls. The read tool accepts an aggregate result type (min, max, 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 tool caller could therefore read a field the calling actor's field policies forbid by requesting it as an aggregate; min/max in particular return an actual field value. This includes fields that are public? true but restricted per-actor by a field policy, such as sensitive PII. The tool's existing check only required the field to be public, 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_ai: from 0.1.0 before 1.0.3.

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_ai
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.1.0 to 1.0.3 (excl.)
Vendor ash-project
Product ash_ai
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2ba234b50946a3b8116190c8467f9f4dfa5edce7 to 9c02de581625c342c9870a672830bff28c1d701e (excl.)

Affected Configurations

Reachable only when an application exposes an AshAi read tool over a resource whose field policies restrict a field that the calling actor can still name as an 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