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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-82738 EEF-CVE-2026-82738EUVD-2026-68965GHSA-7xfw-9jwm-9c4c

Ash.Type.UUIDv7 accepts non-v7 UUIDs that then fail to load, causing persistent denial of service

Published Sep 1, 2026 · Updated Sep 1, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in ash-project ash allows an attacker to persistently deny reads of a record by storing a non-version-7 UUID in an Ash.Type.UUIDv7 attribute.

Ash.Type.UUIDv7.cast_input/2 accepts any well-formed UUID string, including non-version-7 UUIDs, and stores it as a 16-byte binary. On read, cast_stored/2 (lib/ash/type/uuid_v7.ex) routes the stored binary back through cast_input/2, which since an input-validation tightening in v3.6.3 matches only version-7 (and optionally version-4) 16-byte binaries and otherwise expects a 36-character string. A stored non-v7 16-byte binary matches neither clause and returns :error, so every later read of that record fails. An attacker able to set such an attribute poisons the row permanently. The fix decodes any 16-byte stored binary directly in cast_stored/2.

This issue affects ash: from 3.6.3 before 3.32.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ash-project ash 3.6.3 – < 3.32.2 3.32.2

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex ash >= 3.6.3, < 3.32.2 3.32.2 EEF-CVE-2026-82738

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