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Medium · 6.0 CVE-2026-82579 EEF-CVE-2026-82579EUVD-2026-68307GHSA-rcx7-x2w5-mmc2

AshAi tool loop never terminates when all tool calls are filtered out, enabling denial of service

Published Aug 31, 2026 · Updated Aug 31, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop) vulnerability in ash-project ash_ai allows an attacker who can influence a model's output to hang the tool loop and drive unbounded, repeated model requests.

AshAi.ToolLoop classifies a model response of :tool_calls, then filters the calls through normalize_tool_calls/2 and unprocessed_tool_calls/2. Both can empty the list: a call missing a valid name, or one reusing a tool_call_id that already has a result in history, is dropped. With an empty list the loop appended nothing and recursed with a byte-identical message list, so the conversation never advanced and the same request was re-sent every iteration. Under the supported max_iterations: :infinity this never terminated; otherwise it exhausted the full budget. Prompt-injected content can make the model re-emit a spent tool_call_id. The fix treats an empty post-filter list as terminal.

This issue affects ash_ai: from 0.6.0 before 1.0.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ash-project ash_ai 0.6.0 – < 1.0.0 1.0.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex ash_ai >= 0.6.0, < 1.0.0 1.0.0 EEF-CVE-2026-82579

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