CVE-2026-78699 PUBLISHED

rename_tenant returns :ok on a failed rename, enabling cross-tenant access in AshPostgres

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

Unchecked Return Value vulnerability in ash-project ash_postgres allows a user who can drive a tenant rename to a name that collides with an existing tenant's schema to have their tenant record repointed at that other tenant's live schema, gaining access to its data.

AshPostgres.MultiTenancy.rename_tenant/3 issues the ALTER SCHEMA ... RENAME TO ... with the non-raising Ecto.Adapters.SQL.query/2, discards its {:ok, } | {:error, } result, and unconditionally returns :ok. PostgreSQL rejects the rename when the target schema already exists (and on insufficient privilege or lock timeout), but that failure never reaches the caller. The calling manage_tenant update action therefore sees success and commits the tenant row with the new name, which is the schema of a different existing tenant, so subsequent reads and writes for that tenant run against the other tenant's data.

This issue affects ash_postgres: from 0.25.0 before 2.13.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.2

Product Status

Vendor ash-project
Product ash_postgres
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.25.0 to 2.13.0 (excl.)
Vendor ash-project
Product ash_postgres
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 03510dae24020e302558ef947be7ea874a9ce756 to 8544ab15fe45784553c2d2da8ee1a388eee0174b (excl.)

Affected Configurations

An application must run ash_postgres schema-based multitenancy with a user-driven tenant rename (for example a manage_tenant update on an editable org slug or subdomain), letting a user choose a new tenant name that collides with an existing tenant's schema.

Credits

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

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs