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CVE-2026-77454: exists/2 predicate silently dropped on limited relationships with a parent() filter in AshSql

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 23/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.17% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: ash-project ash_sql 0.7.1, 865fdd4e5e70724a23b19c048e6768c31d2209ab.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to ash-project ash_sql 0.7.1, 865fdd4e5e70724a23b19c048e6768c31d2209ab or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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.

MediumCVSS 5.9 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Aug 30, 2026
Updated
Sep 1, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 7th percentile

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Action score

23

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
23 / 40 · 5.9 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · EEF
5.9
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CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Versions reported by the vendor

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  • ash-project ash_sql

    • 0.4.1 and later · before 0.7.1affected · semver
    • e26a63b29bd7501505fafd726f14262cdc3b6629 and later · before 865fdd4e5e70724a23b19c048e6768c31d2209abaffected · git

Package-level exposure

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EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Hexash_sqlfrom 0.4.1 · before 0.7.10.7.1

Same product

ash-project: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-81318Distinct-query aggregate drops the tenant schema prefix, leaking across tenants in AshSql
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  • CVE-2026-81316Same-named aggregates with differing filters are conflated in AshSql
    8Monitor
  • CVE-2026-80227SQL string_trim removes only spaces, diverging from in-memory trimming in AshSql
    8Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • Later →CVE-2026-78691Aug 30, 2026 · Unescaped backslash allows LIKE wildcard injection in AshSql string search
    8Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
ash-project ash_sql0.7.1Vendor (CNA)
ash-project ash_sql865fdd4e5e70724a23b19c048e6768c31d2209abVendor (CNA)
Hex:ash_sql0.7.1Package registry (OSV)

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EPSS, last 120 days

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-813160 days apartSame-named aggregates with differing filters are conflated in AshSql
    8Monitor
  • CVE-2026-813180 days apartDistinct-query aggregate drops the tenant schema prefix, leaking across tenants in AshSql
    8Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

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References

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