High severity · published Sep 7, 2026
CVE-2026-82753
Unauthenticated authorize requests create unbounded, never-expiring CIMD client rows and cache entries in ash_authentication_oauth2_server
8.2
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in ash-project ash_authentication_oauth2_server allows an unauthenticated attacker to exhaust database storage and memory. The /authorize endpoint is unauthenticated by design. With Client ID Metadata Documents enabled, resolve_client/3 in AshAuthentication.Oauth2Server.CIMD fetches the document for each new URL-shaped client_id and upserts a client row, with no cap on the number of rows, no expiry or garbage collection, and no length bound on the fetched fields; the document was also placed in CIMD.Cache before validation, so even rejected documents held cache memory until their TTL. An attacker serving valid documents at many distinct URLs creates one permanent client row per URL, each able to carry multi-megabyte strings, growing storage and memory without bound. This issue affects ash_authentication_oauth2_server: from 0.3.0 before 0.3.1.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 51% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AS
ash_authentication_oauth2_server · ash-project
0.3.0 before 0.3.1; e713a9ba816761140c226e2ca55b75c0b93f5984 before 45e24f69e0f95d67413e2508acc2264156acb5ac · source: vendor
Affected product
AS
ash_authentication_oauth2_server
ash-project
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