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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.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-130 · Excessive Allocation MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / ash_ai Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

0.6.0 < 1.0.0 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_ai:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshAi.ToolLoop'
source files lib/ash_ai/tool_loop.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshAi.ToolLoop':run/2 · 'Elixir.AshAi.ToolLoop':stream/2

Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash_ai Repository ↗

bc2122f < 53325fd affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:ash-project:ash_ai:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.AshAi.ToolLoop'
source files lib/ash_ai/tool_loop.ex
routines 'Elixir.AshAi.ToolLoop':run/2 · 'Elixir.AshAi.ToolLoop':stream/2

References

Credits

Peter Ullrich Finder Reporter
Zach Daniel / Ash Project Remediation developer
Jonatan Männchen / EEF Coordinator

CVSS breakdown

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
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