# CVE-2026-78693: Incomplete redaction re-attaches the original error path in AshGraphql, leaking internal field names

- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.11.0
- Published: 2026-08-30 · Updated: 2026-08-31

## Affected

- ash\_graphql: from 1.9.0, fixed in 1.11.0
- ash-project/ash\_graphql: version range not reported

## Description

Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in ash-project ash_graphql allows a remote client to read internal field names that an application configured its error_handler to redact. In AshGraphql.Errors, each error is passed to the configured error_handler and the returned map is merged with the pre-handler path via Map.put_new(handled, :path, path). Because put_new defers to the handler only when the handler itself set :path, a sanitizing handler that returns a fresh map or deletes :path has that decision reverted. The re-injected path comes from build_error_path/5, which falls back to raw internal Ash attribute and argument names when no field_names mapping is configured. A validation failure on a non-exposed or nested field therefore returns internal names in the GraphQL error path, defeating the application's redaction. This issue affects ash_graphql: from 1.9.0 before 1.11.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ash\_graphql, ash-project/ash\_graphql, upgrade to a fixed version (1.11.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/ash-project/ash_graphql/security/advisories/GHSA-ppr2-g9h8-w7qp
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-78693.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-78693
- https://github.com/ash-project/ash_graphql/commit/78e90d369f09f44c534816de541e60841066a467

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