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Medium · 4.2 CVE-2024-12910 EUVD-2025-6965GHSA-jvpf-xf32-2w4qPYSEC-2025-11

Denial of Service in run-llama/llama_index

Published Mar 20, 2025 · Updated Oct 15, 2025 · Assigned by @huntr_ai

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
run-llama run-llama/llama_index unspecified – < 0.3.3 0.3.3

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI llama-index < 0.12.9 0.12.9 GHSA-jvpf-xf32-2w4q

References