Medium severity · published Aug 31, 2026
CVE-2026-82579
AshAi tool loop never terminates when all tool calls are filtered out, enabling denial of service
6.0
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AS
ash_ai · ash-project
0.6.0 before 1.0.0; bc2122f78fca6c11d8ec2b9ac53148ec17476460 before 53325fdab90afab628c6a53232ef2a9001580bd9 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-82579
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-82579
cna.erlef.org
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-82579.html
github.com
https://github.com/ash-project/ash_ai/commit/53325fdab90afab628c6a53232ef2a9001580bd9
github.com
https://github.com/ash-project/ash_ai/security/advisories/GHSA-rcx7-x2w5-mmc2
osv.dev
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-82579
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