CVE-2026-82753

Unauthenticated authorize requests create unbounded, never-expiring CIMD client rows and cache entries in ash_authentication_oauth2_server

HIGH
8.2
CVSS Score
Published: September 7, 2026 at 10:23 PM UTC
Updated: September 8, 2026 at 03:18 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAsh Authentication OAUTH2 Server

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Severity
HIGH8.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in ash-project ash_authentication_oauth2_server allows an unauthenticated attacker to exhaust database storage and memory. The /authorize endpoint is unauthenticated by design. With Client ID Metadata Documents enabled, resolve_client/3 in AshAuthentication.Oauth2Server.CIMD fetches the document for each new URL-shaped client_id and upserts a client row, with no cap on the number of rows, no expiry or garbage collection, and no length bound on the fetched fields; the document was also placed in CIMD.Cache before validation, so even rejected documents held cache memory until their TTL. An attacker serving valid documents at many distinct URLs creates one permanent client row per URL, each able to carry multi-megabyte strings, growing storage and memory without bound. This issue affects ash_authentication_oauth2_server: from 0.3.0 before 0.3.1.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

0.3.0 ≤ v < 0.3.10.3.0e713a9ba816761140c226e2ca55b75c0b93f5984
Vendor states this is fixed in 45e24f69e0f95d67413e2508acc2264156acb5ac (fixed)
Affected range stops below 0.3.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

8.2HIGHEEF
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-770

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