CVE-2026-78228

MEDIUMPre-NVD 5.95.9
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This medium-severity CVE scores 5.9 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.1%, top 97% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, secondary
5.9EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 5.9Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in ash-project ash_oban allows a user who can drive a trigger's on_error action to fail on the final attempt to exhaust worker CPU and memory, denying service.

The generated worker's atomic handle_error/4 runs the trigger's on_error action on a job's final attempt inside a rescue that, when the action itself raises, calls handle_error/4 again with the same job. The job's attempt still equals max_attempts, so it re-enters the same clause and re-runs the failing action, with no exit. Any deterministic on_error failure (a data-layer outage, a misconfigured action, or a record the action rejects) loops forever; because the recursive call is not in tail position, each iteration retains a formatted stacktrace and the process heap grows without bound while the failing statement is re-issued against the data layer until the runtime kills the worker.

This issue affects ash_oban: from 0.8.0-rc.1 before 0.8.14.

CVSS v3
5.9
EG Score
5.9(medium)
EG Risk
31(Track)
EG Risk 31/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity59% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
3%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 30, 2026

Last Modified

September 1, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Aug 30, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Patch available. Sources: github, github_commit.
github_commit Patch Available

commit 851cd0e76ed8 (ash-project/ash_oban)

Patch available: ash-project/ash_oban v0.8.14 (contains commit 851cd0e76ed8)

https://github.com/ash-project/ash_oban/commit/851cd0e76ed882bf736fc48d10f96d037e26b5f0
generic

OSV - Open Source Vulnerabilities

https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-78228
github Patch Available🟡 PoC Available

Uncontrolled recursion in AshOban-generated workers allows denial of service when an `on_error` action deterministically fails · Advisory · ash-project/ash_oban · GitHub

https://github.com/ash-project/ash_oban/security/advisories/GHSA-94p7-498r-mrhp

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Hex(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
ash_oban0.8.0-rc.1 ... 0.8.9 (14 versions)0.8.14

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 29× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-78228?
CVE-2026-78228 is a medium vulnerability published on August 30, 2026. Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in ash-project ashoban allows a user who can drive a trigger's onerror action to fail on the final attempt to exhaust worker CPU and memory, denying service. The generated worker's atomic handleerror/4 runs the trigger's onerror action on a job's final attempt…
When was CVE-2026-78228 disclosed?
CVE-2026-78228 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 30, 2026, with the most recent update on September 1, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-78228 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-78228 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 97.3% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-78228?
CVE-2026-78228 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.9 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-78228?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-78228, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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