AshAdmin LiveView events intern atoms from client input, exhausting the atom table (node DoS)
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-770.
Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in ash-project ash_admin lets any client that can reach the admin LiveView exhaust the BEAM atom table and crash the entire node. Two LiveView event handlers interned atoms from unvalidated client input: AshAdmin.PageLive's set_actor built modules from the resource/domain payload with Module.concat/1, and AshAdmin.Components.Resource.Show's calculate converted every submitted form key with String.to_atom/1. Atoms are never garbage collected and the table is capped, so flooding either event with random names mints a new atom per request until the VM aborts, taking down every application on the node. The fix resolves the submitted resource/domain against the known shown resources and maps calculation keys to declared arguments, so no client-supplied string is interned. This issue affects ash_admin: from 0.1.0 before 1.3.1.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ash-project | ash_admin | 0.1.0 to before 1.3.1 | 1.3.1 | Patch available | CNA |
- ash_admin Vendorash-project Affected 0.1.0 to before 1.3.1 Fixed in 1.3.1 Patch available CNA
CPE names CNA · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_admin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | — | — | — |
- cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_admin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·—
Remediation
- Fix · CNA ash_admin (ash-project) Fixed in 1.3.1
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
ash-project ash_admin 1.3.1
7 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 4 HIGH, 2 MEDIUM, 1 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-57010 Path traversal in AshAdmin file uploads via unsanitized client filenamePriority HIGH 75
- TI-2026-54208 Stored XSS in AshAdmin relationship typeahead via unescaped label_field contentPriority HIGH 72
- TI-2026-53032 AshAdmin cookie reader matches names by substring, enabling actor/session shadowing from a sibling subdomainPriority HIGH 69
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-82722
References
More ash-project vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-56298 Query-complexity limit bypass via first/last pagination arguments in AshGraphql enables denial of service CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-52572 Unbounded atom creation from client-supplied RPC field names in AshTypescript field formatter CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-57010 Path traversal in AshAdmin file uploads via unsanitized client filename CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
- TI-2026-26840 Ash Framework: Ash.Type.Module.cast_input/2 atom exhaustion via unchecked Module.concat allows BEAM VM crash CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
- TI-2026-54252 EEx template evaluation of prompt content in AshAi enables remote code execution CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.9
- TI-2026-54208 Stored XSS in AshAdmin relationship typeahead via unescaped label_field content CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.4
Sources
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