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Low · 2.1 CVE-2026-82743 EEF-CVE-2026-82743EUVD-2026-68948GHSA-33wq-x3q2-c92h

Ash.Actions.Read.AsyncLimiter busy-spins a scheduler while awaiting slow async reads

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

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ash-project ash lets a slow asynchronous read spin a scheduler thread at full CPU while the framework waits for it.

Ash.Actions.Read.AsyncLimiter.await_at_least_one/1 (lib/ash/actions/read/async_limiter.ex) waited for concurrent async read tasks by polling each with Task.yield(task, 0) in a tight loop rather than blocking. While every outstanding task is still running (a slow related-data load or calculation), the loop returns immediately and repeats, busy-spinning and holding a BEAM scheduler at full CPU for the whole duration of the slow read; concurrent slow reads tie up further schedulers. The fix waits with Task.yield_many (a non-blocking sweep followed by a blocking wait with timeout: :infinity), so the process sleeps until a task completes instead of spinning.

This issue affects ash: from 2.19.0 before 3.32.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ash-project ash 2.19.0 – < 3.32.2 3.32.2

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex ash >= 2.19.0, < 3.32.2 3.32.2 EEF-CVE-2026-82743

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