CVE-2024-12910
MEDIUM5.9EPSS 0.35%LlamaIndex Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
Published: 3/20/2025Modified: 10/15/2025
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 packages (2)
- PyPI/llama-indexfrom 0, < 0.12.9
- PyPI/llama-indexfrom 0, < 159ce485a1168100bb219dc1b93133f1121579d9 | from 0, < 0.12.9
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (5)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12910
- PATCHhttps://github.com/run-llama/llama_index
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/llama-index/PYSEC-2025-11.yaml
- WEBhttps://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/commit/159ce485a1168100bb219dc1b93133f1121579d9
- WEBhttps://huntr.com/bounties/27883f22-35ff-49df-aaa5-05031c7d6ad8