Description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ash-project ash allows an attacker to force an expensive regular expression to run on input that a length constraint should have already rejected.

Ash.Type.String.apply_constraints/2 (lib/ash/type/string.ex) evaluated the :match regex regardless of the min_length and max_length constraints on the same attribute. Because the length check did not gate the regex, an over-length value that the length constraint rejects still had the pattern applied to it, so the length limit that would otherwise bound the work never constrained the regex input. Against a backtracking pattern this yields catastrophic regex evaluation on attacker-sized input, and even a linear pattern runs on arbitrarily large input, consuming CPU per request. The fix skips the :match regex whenever a length constraint is violated, making the two checks order-independent.

This issue affects ash: from 0.10.0 before 3.32.2.
Published: 2026-09-01
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Description Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ash-project ash allows an attacker to force an expensive regular expression to run on input that a length constraint should have already rejected. Ash.Type.String.apply_constraints/2 (lib/ash/type/string.ex) evaluated the :match regex regardless of the min_length and max_length constraints on the same attribute. Because the length check did not gate the regex, an over-length value that the length constraint rejects still had the pattern applied to it, so the length limit that would otherwise bound the work never constrained the regex input. Against a backtracking pattern this yields catastrophic regex evaluation on attacker-sized input, and even a linear pattern runs on arbitrarily large input, consuming CPU per request. The fix skips the :match regex whenever a length constraint is violated, making the two checks order-independent. This issue affects ash: from 0.10.0 before 3.32.2.
Title Match regex runs on over-length input in Ash.Type.String, enabling regex denial of service
First Time appeared Ash-project
Ash-project ash
Weaknesses CWE-400
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Ash-project
Ash-project ash
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: EEF

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-01T03:19:36.579Z

Reserved: 2026-08-31T00:59:10.001Z

Link: CVE-2026-82735

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-01T04:18:02.817

Modified: 2026-09-01T04:18:02.817

Link: CVE-2026-82735

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-01T04:30:02Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-400

    Uncontrolled Resource Consumption