ghsa-jvpf-xf32-2w4q
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Published
2025-03-20 12:32
Modified
2025-04-02 00:53
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
LlamaIndex Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
Details

A vulnerability in the KnowledgeBaseWebReader class of the run-llama/llama_index repository, version latest, allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by controlling a URL variable to contain the root URL. This leads to infinite recursive calls to the get_article_urls method, exhausting system resources and potentially crashing the application.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "llama-index"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.12.9"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-12910"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-400"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-03-21T22:02:26Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-03-20T10:15:31Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "A vulnerability in the `KnowledgeBaseWebReader` class of the run-llama/llama_index repository, version latest, allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by controlling a URL variable to contain the root URL. This leads to infinite recursive calls to the `get_article_urls` method, exhausting system resources and potentially crashing the application.",
  "id": "GHSA-jvpf-xf32-2w4q",
  "modified": "2025-04-02T00:53:41Z",
  "published": "2025-03-20T12:32:44Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12910"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/commit/159ce485a1168100bb219dc1b93133f1121579d9"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/llama-index/PYSEC-2025-11.yaml"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://huntr.com/bounties/27883f22-35ff-49df-aaa5-05031c7d6ad8"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "LlamaIndex Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability"
}


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