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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-82745 EEF-CVE-2026-82745EUVD-2026-68950GHSA-92x7-q3h5-wf88

ETS and Mnesia data layers overwrite an existing record on create instead of enforcing primary-key uniqueness

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

Description

Improper Access Control vulnerability in ash-project ash lets a create action overwrite an existing record when the ETS or Mnesia data layer is used, because neither enforced primary-key uniqueness on insert.

Unlike a SQL data layer, whose unique primary-key constraint rejects a duplicate, the ETS and Mnesia data layers implemented create as a keyed insert that replaces any existing entry with the same primary key (lib/ash/data_layer/ets/ets.ex, lib/ash/data_layer/mnesia/mnesia.ex). An actor who can set the primary key on a create (for example a user-supplied string or integer key) can submit a create whose key matches an existing record and silently overwrite it, destroying and replacing another entity's data without going through the update action or its policies. The fix rejects a create whose primary key already exists with an already-taken error, and only allows duplicates for keyless resources.

This issue affects ash: from 0.4.0 before 3.32.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ash-project ash 0.4.0 – < 3.32.2 3.32.2

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex ash >= 0.4.0, < 3.32.2 3.32.2 EEF-CVE-2026-82745

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