CVE-2026-77454
MediumCVSS 5.9Summary
A vulnerability in ash_sql allows a caller to bypass a scoping or authorization filter expressed as exists/2 over a relationship that declares both a limit and a parent(...)-referencing filter or sort. In certain cases, the limit and predicate are dropped, causing the check to match any record with any related row.
Risk Assessment
This can lead to security policy violations, including authorization of actions for unauthorized actors, threatening data integrity and access control.
Recommendation
It is recommended to upgrade ash_sql to version 0.7.1 or later and review policies using exists/2 to ensure filter correctness.
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Original NVD description (English source)
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.