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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-78216"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-08T16:42:20.908Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-08T17:27:08.856Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-78216"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-78216.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-78216"
title: "AshLua eval read operations can read field-policy-protected fields via aggregates"
summary: "AshLua exposes Ash read actions to Lua scripts run through an eval action. A read call accepts an operation (list, min, max, first, sum, avg) that builds an ad-hoc Ash.Query.Aggregate over a named field and returns its raw value.\n\nAsh field policies redact forbidden fields on returned records (replacing them with %Ash.ForbiddenField{}), but that redaction does not apply to aggregate values. A script could therefore read a field the calling actor's field policies forbid by requesting it as an aggregate instead of as a field. This includes fields that are public? true but restricted per-actor by a field policy, such as sensitive PII. The prior hardening only enforced the exposed-field allow-list (field visibility), which is a separate axis from per-actor field-policy authorization.\n\nThe fix authorizes the aggregated field against the resource's field policies, so aggregating over a field the actor may not see is refused or scoped to the rows where it is visible.\n\nThis issue affects ash_lua: from 0.1.0 before 0.2.2."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0.1.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"0.2.2"}],"vendor":"ash-project","product":"ash_lua","packageName":"ash_lua","collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"8675e47cca81f36594083a7e63379bac9e123e72","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"266a5dcc56d5015b6d316c10606169e753b07450"}],"vendor":"ash-project","product":"ash_lua","packageName":"ash-project/ash_lua","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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