BEAM node crash via unsafe decrypted-term decoding
Published Aug 30, 2026 · Updated Aug 30, 2026
Deserialization of untrusted data in AshCloak 0.1.0 through 0.3.1 allows attackers to crash the BEAM node via forged encrypted columns. AshCloak.Calculations.Decrypt passes decrypted bytes to Ash.Helpers.non_executable_binary_to_term/1 without the safe option, interning attacker-supplied atoms and transparently inflating compressed terms. Exploitation requires modifiable stored ciphertext or an unauthenticated vault cipher and a subsequent field read; atom exhaustion or memory expansion crashes the node until restart.
Summary
What happened
Deserialization of untrusted data in AshCloak 0.1.0 through 0.3.1 allows attackers to crash the BEAM node via forged encrypted columns. AshCloak.Calculations.Decrypt passes decrypted bytes to Ash.Helpers.non_executable_binary_to_term/1 without the safe option, interning attacker-supplied atoms and transparently inflating compressed terms. Exploitation requires modifiable stored ciphertext or an unauthenticated vault cipher and a subsequent field read; atom exhaustion or memory expansion crashes the node until restart.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-81319
- Published
- Aug 30, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 30, 2026
- Vendor
- Ash Framework
- Product
- AshCloak
- Classifications
- CWE-502, CAPEC-586, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 30, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 30, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0.1.0 <0.4.0
- Affected versionversion=f1595a77fdfa9bfc672f84c2f77feb9e7bf895fc <1690f0a436efe3e7c11d70d74ff5a8ac0fdf6608
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