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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-34593 EUVD-2026-18456GHSA-jjf9-w5vj-r6vp

Ash Framework: Ash.Type.Module.cast_input/2 atom exhaustion via unchecked Module.concat allows BEAM VM crash

Published Apr 2, 2026 · Updated Apr 3, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Ash Framework is a declarative, extensible framework for building Elixir applications. Prior to version 3.22.0, Ash.Type.Module.cast_input/2 unconditionally creates a new Erlang atom via Module.concat([value]) for any user-supplied binary string that starts with "Elixir.", before verifying whether the referenced module exists. Because Erlang atoms are never garbage-collected and the BEAM atom table has a hard default limit of approximately 1,048,576 entries, an attacker who can submit values to any resource attribute or argument of type :module can exhaust this table and crash the entire BEAM VM, taking down the application. This issue has been patched in version 3.22.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ash-project ash < 3.22.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex ash < 3.22.0 3.22.0 GHSA-jjf9-w5vj-r6vp

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