CVE-2017-20166 — Ecto 2

Ecto 2.2.0 lacks a certain protection mechanism associated with the interaction between is_nil and raise.

01What is this vulnerability?

Ecto 2.2.0 lacks a certain protection mechanism associated with the interaction between is_nil and raise.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-01-10T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-09T17:30:12.094Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2xxx-fhc8-9qvq
• github.com — https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/pull/2125
• github.com — https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/commit/db55b0cba6525c24ebddc88ef9ae0c1c00620…
• groups.google.com — https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/elixir-ecto/0m4NPfg_MMU