CVE-2026-81318 PUBLISHED

Distinct-query aggregate drops the tenant schema prefix, leaking across tenants 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 in a schema-based multitenant application to receive aggregate values computed from another tenant's rows.

When an aggregate is computed over a distinct query, AshSql.AggregateQuery.add_single_aggs/5 rebuilds the outer query from query.from.source alone, which is only the {table, schema} tuple and does not carry query.prefix or query.from.prefix. For strategy(:context) multitenancy those hold the tenant schema, so the rebuilt outer query reads the repo's default schema while the inner correlated subquery still reads the tenant schema, and the two are joined only on primary key. The aggregate, and any relationship join added off the prefix-less binding, is then computed against the wrong tenant's rows. The neighbouring limit and exists branches instead wrap the query with subquery/1, which preserves the prefix.

This issue affects ash_sql: from 0.1.0 before 0.7.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 2.1

Product Status

Vendor ash-project
Product ash_sql
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.1.0 to 0.7.1 (excl.)
Vendor ash-project
Product ash_sql
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from dd092ed273dec7bd2194352f24a39229fc8ae68b to 3d95478cc9e1d5bfaf6144fe9b9793f29e5ab889 (excl.)

Affected Configurations

An application must use AshPostgres schema-based (strategy(:context)) multitenancy and compute an aggregate over a distinct query (for example an aggregate whose query filters across a to-many relationship).

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