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FKIE_CVE-2026-78691

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-30 12:17 - Updated: 2026-08-30 12:17

Severity

2.1 (Low) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Summary

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Data Query Logic vulnerability in ash-project ash_sql allows a user who supplies a search term to contains/2, string_starts_with/2, or string_ends_with/2 to inject live SQL LIKE wildcards, turning a literal substring search into an attacker-controlled pattern match. The escape helpers in AshSql.Expr prefix % and _ with a backslash but never escape a backslash already present in the input. Because backslash is the default LIKE escape character, the escaping defeats itself: the input \% becomes the pattern fragment \\%, where \\ is a literal backslash and the attacker's % remains a live wildcard. The search value stays parameterized, so this is confined to the LIKE pattern grammar rather than full SQL. An attacker can widen matches to probe values, slip past a negated contains(...) guard, or crash the query with a trailing lone backslash. This issue affects ash_sql: from 0.1.1-rc.10 before 0.7.1.

References

	URL	Tags
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-78691.html
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://github.com/ash-project/ash_sql/commit/d95c55c64b1b42cc2fd30211a4913f3145156cd4
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://github.com/ash-project/ash_sql/security/advisories/GHSA-5jgp-7mhc-6qqh
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-78691

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-78691 (GCVE-0-2026-78691)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-30 11:55 – Updated: 2026-08-30 11:55

Title

Unescaped backslash allows LIKE wildcard injection in AshSql string search

Summary

Severity

2.1 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE

CWE-943 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Data Query Logic

Assigner

EEF mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/ash-project/ash_sql/security/a…	vendor-advisoryrelated
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-78691.html	related
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-78691	related
https://github.com/ash-project/ash_sql/commit/d95…	patch

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
ash-project	ash_sql	Affected: 0.1.1-rc.10 , < 0.7.1 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_sql::::::::
ash-project	ash_sql	Affected: cfc7da474c5be2190fd62664a83a689377a8d512 , < d95c55c64b1b42cc2fd30211a4913f3145156cd4 (git) cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_sql::::::::

Credits

Peter Ullrich Peter Ullrich Zach Daniel / Ash Project Jonatan Männchen / EEF

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CVE-2026-78691 (GCVE-0-2026-78691)

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