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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-77454 EEF-CVE-2026-77454EUVD-2026-68198GHSA-8v9m-8pxv-738c

exists/2 predicate silently dropped on limited relationships with a parent() filter in AshSql

Published Aug 30, 2026 · Updated Aug 31, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in ash-project ash_sql allows a caller to bypass a scoping or authorization filter expressed as exists/2 over a relationship that declares both a limit (or from_many?) and a parent(...)-referencing filter or sort.

AshSql.Join.related_query/3 skips the caller-supplied exists predicate for such relationships and delegates it to limit_from_many/5. When the relationship's own filter or sort references parent(...), limit_from_many/5 takes a branch that drops both the limit and the predicate, emitting a bare correlated EXISTS with no predicate. The check then matches any record that has any related row. Most severely, when the expression backs a policy (for example authorize_if expr(exists(memberships, user_id == ^actor(:id)))), the actor-scoping condition disappears and the policy passes for any actor with any related row.

This issue affects ash_sql: from 0.4.1 before 0.7.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ash-project ash_sql 0.4.1 – < 0.7.1 0.7.1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex ash_sql >= 0.4.1, < 0.7.1 0.7.1 EEF-CVE-2026-77454

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