Description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ash-project ash lets an attacker exhaust node memory by matching a filter that spans multiple to-many relationships in memory.

Ash.Filter.Runtime matches a filter against an in-memory record by first expanding the record into combinations of its related rows. flatten_relationships/2 (lib/ash/filter/runtime.ex) eagerly built the full Cartesian product across the filter's to-many relationship paths, so a record with K to-many relationships of M rows each materialized on the order of M^K scenarios before any predicate was checked. A filter or dataset that reaches several sizeable to-many relationships therefore allocates memory combinatorially and can exhaust the node. The fix streams the expansion lazily and short-circuits on the first matching scenario, bounding the work.

This issue affects ash: from 1.29.0-rc0 before 3.32.2.
Published: 2026-09-01
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Description Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ash-project ash lets an attacker exhaust node memory by matching a filter that spans multiple to-many relationships in memory. Ash.Filter.Runtime matches a filter against an in-memory record by first expanding the record into combinations of its related rows. flatten_relationships/2 (lib/ash/filter/runtime.ex) eagerly built the full Cartesian product across the filter's to-many relationship paths, so a record with K to-many relationships of M rows each materialized on the order of M^K scenarios before any predicate was checked. A filter or dataset that reaches several sizeable to-many relationships therefore allocates memory combinatorially and can exhaust the node. The fix streams the expansion lazily and short-circuits on the first matching scenario, bounding the work. This issue affects ash: from 1.29.0-rc0 before 3.32.2.
Title Ash.Filter.Runtime materializes a combinatorial cross-product over to-many relationships, exhausting memory
First Time appeared Ash-project
Ash-project ash
Weaknesses CWE-400
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Ash-project
Ash-project ash
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: EEF

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-01T03:35:18.551Z

Reserved: 2026-08-31T01:00:09.774Z

Link: CVE-2026-82742

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-01T04:18:04.147

Modified: 2026-09-01T04:18:04.147

Link: CVE-2026-82742

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-01T05:00:06Z

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