HIGH 8.2 NVD
CVE-2026-77856
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in ash-project ash_typescript allows an unauthenticated attacker to exhaust the BEAM atom tab
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in ash-project ash_typescript allows an unauthenticated attacker to exhaust the BEAM atom table and abort the node via client-supplied typed struct field names.
resolve_typed_struct_field/2 in lib/ash_typescript/rpc/field_processing/field_selector.ex looks a client-supplied field name up in the typed struct's reverse map and, when it finds no match, falls back to String.to_atom/1. Because this runs before any field-existence check, an unresolvable name mints a permanent atom rather than being rejected as unknown. Atoms are never garbage collected, so a request carrying many distinct names on a typed struct field grows the atom table until the VM aborts at its limit.
This issue affects ash_typescript: from 0.11.0 before 0.18.0.
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-77856.html
- https://github.com/ash-project/ash_typescript/commit/0ab5c83a7df28d51a6de1fb9b859a142b2b12
- https://github.com/ash-project/ash_typescript/security/advisories/GHSA-rj47-h936-4cxw
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-77856
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.2 was published on 2026-09-01 via NVD.
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