Medium severity · published Jun 23, 2026
CVE-2026-55736
Private action arguments can be set by user input in Ash
5.9
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes vulnerability in ash-project ash allows a user to set the value of a private action argument that is intended to be controlled only by trusted server-side code.
Action arguments declared with public?: false are meant to be set internally (for example via Ash.Changeset.set_private_argument/3) and must not be settable from end-user input. When a changeset is built from a parameter map, Ash filters out private arguments, but the filtering is incomplete.
In the regular changeset path (for_create, for_update, for_destroy), private arguments are stripped only when the parameter key is an atom. When the key is a binary (string), as is the case for user-supplied parameters, the private argument is kept and the user controls its value. In the atomic path (Ash.Changeset.fully_atomic_changeset/4, also reached through atomic and bulk updates), private arguments are not stripped at all, regardless of whether the key is an atom or a binary.
An attacker who can submit parameters to an action that defines a private argument can therefore inject a value for that argument. Depending on how the application uses the argument (for example an acting_user_id driving authorization or record ownership), this can lead to an integrity violation or privilege escalation.
This issue affects ash: from 3.0.0 before 3.29.3.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 13% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AS
ash · ash-project
3.0.0 before 3.29.3; 5967ed3a483ab949866e6d7b043b043e61703f17 before d9b3100219b3ea86d73202bf7368c03a7688efea · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55736
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-55736
cna.erlef.org
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-55736.html
github.com
https://github.com/ash-project/ash/commit/d9b3100219b3ea86d73202bf7368c03a7688efea
github.com
https://github.com/ash-project/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-f4hc-ppw9-4hhw
osv.dev
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-55736
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