CVE-2026-78691: Unescaped backslash allows LIKE wildcard injection in AshSql string search
ash-project · ash_sql
Fixed in 0.7.1 · Affected: ash-project ash_sql before 0.7.1 · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 9% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Affected products2
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- ash-project · ash_sqlfrom 0.1.1-rc.10 before 0.7.1
- ash-project · ash_sqlVersions not stated
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- ash-project
- Published
- August 2026
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