Medium severity · published Aug 9, 2026
CVE-2026-69659
Memory exhaustion via unbounded deserialization of keyset pagination cursors in Ash.Page.Keyset
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ash-project ash allows an attacker to exhaust the memory of the node via a crafted keyset pagination cursor.
Read actions with keyset pagination deserialize the client-supplied page[:after] or page[:before] cursor in decode_values/2 in lib/ash/page/keyset.ex, which base64-decodes the value and passes it to :erlang.binary_to_term/2 without bounding its size. The Erlang external term format supports zlib-compressed payloads, which the decoder inflates transparently, so a cursor of a few kilobytes can allocate tens of megabytes of heap in a single call. Ash itself only ever encodes cursors uncompressed, so the decoder accepts a term shape its encoder never produces. Concurrent requests aggregate these allocations and can terminate the node.
This issue affects ash: from 1.17.0 before 3.31.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 29% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AS
ash · ash-project
1.17.0 before 3.31.1; f8fadc67e67c955bb68b3a8d642be13e2b7e8ca9 before 1816b103af975221210478d61db20adcea700319 · source: vendor
AF
Ash Framework · Ash-hq
1.17.0 before 3.31.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-69659
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-69659
Third Party Advisory
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-69659.html
Patch
https://github.com/ash-project/ash/commit/1816b103af975221210478d61db20adcea700319
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/ash-project/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-j35q-v8h8-7mwq
Third Party Advisory
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-69659
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