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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-81636"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-30T18:25:29.776Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-31T15:57:06.465Z"
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-2026-81636"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-81636.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81636"
title: "Query-complexity limit bypass via first/last pagination arguments in AshGraphql enables denial of service"
summary: "Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in ash-project ash_graphql allows an unauthenticated client to bypass the configured GraphQL query-complexity limit and force an unbounded database read.\n\nAshGraphql.Graphql.Resolver.query_complexity/3 multiplies child complexity by the requested page size only when the argument map contains :limit (offset pagination). Relay connections and keyset pagination use first and last, which never match that clause and fall through to the catch-all that returns child_complexity + 1. A nested relay query such as posts(first: 500) { edges { node { comments(first: 500) { ... } } } } therefore scores as trivially cheap while materializing the full fan-out, passing an Absinthe max_complexity cap that rejects the equivalent limit-based query. The fix adds first and last clauses clamped to the action's page size.\n\nThis issue affects ash_graphql: from 0.16.23 before 1.11.0."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0.16.23","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.11.0"}],"vendor":"ash-project","product":"ash_graphql","packageName":"ash_graphql","collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"d8a3e1b15587180ad9cb3ceeb398863d086c163b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3229f6a65cbabb32fd7ffcac881922d1b3b30ad"}],"vendor":"ash-project","product":"ash_graphql","packageName":"ash-project/ash_graphql","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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