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FKIE_CVE-2026-82579

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-31 02:17 - Updated: 2026-09-01 21:15

Severity

6.0 (Medium) - 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

Summary

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-82579.html
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://github.com/ash-project/ash_ai/commit/53325fdab90afab628c6a53232ef2a9001580bd9
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://github.com/ash-project/ash_ai/security/advisories/GHSA-rcx7-x2w5-mmc2
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-82579
	134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://github.com/ash-project/ash_ai/security/advisories/GHSA-rcx7-x2w5-mmc2

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-82579 (GCVE-0-2026-82579)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-31 01:07 – Updated: 2026-08-31 16:05

Title

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

Summary

Severity

6 (Medium)


                        
                          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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-31 16:05 UTC

CWE

CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Assigner

EEF mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/ash-project/ash_ai/security/ad…	vendor-advisoryrelated
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-82579.html	related
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-82579	related
https://github.com/ash-project/ash_ai/commit/5332…	patch

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
ash-project	ash_ai	Affected: 0.6.0 , < 1.0.0 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_ai::::::::
ash-project	ash_ai	Affected: bc2122f78fca6c11d8ec2b9ac53148ec17476460 , < 53325fdab90afab628c6a53232ef2a9001580bd9 (git) cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_ai::::::::

Credits

Peter Ullrich Peter Ullrich Zach Daniel / Ash Project Jonatan Männchen / EEF

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