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CVE-2026-82579: CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in ash-project ash_ai

0
Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-82579cvecve-2026-82579cwe-835
Published: 08/31/2026 (08/31/2026, 01:07:49 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: ash-project
Product: ash_ai

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.

CVSS v4.0

Score 6.0medium

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
Present
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Vuln. Confidentiality
None
Vuln. Integrity
None
Vuln. Availability
High
Subsq. Confidentiality
None
Subsq. Integrity
None
Subsq. Availability
None
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected software

ash_ai
pkg:hex/ash_ai
Affected versions
>=0.6.0 <1.0.0
GitHub Actionsmore threats →cve
ash-project/ash_ai
pkg:github/ash-project/ash_ai
CPE configurations
cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_ai:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
EEF
Date Reserved
2026-08-30T20:00:01.852Z
Cvss Version
4.0
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a94db21acd9273b495a1eb3

Added to database: 08/31/2026, 01:38:41 UTC

Last updated: 08/31/2026, 03:22:40 UTC

Views: 6

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