CVE-2025-3044
LlamaIndex vulnerability in ArxivReader class can cause MD5 hash collisions
5.3
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.23%
Description
A vulnerability in the ArxivReader class of the run-llama/llama_index repository allows for MD5 hash collisions when generating filenames for downloaded papers. This can lead to data loss as papers with identical titles but different contents may overwrite each other, preventing some papers from being processed for AI model training. The issue is resolved in llama-index-readers-papers version 0.3.1 (in llama-index 0.12.28).
How to fix CVE-2025-3044
To remediate CVE-2025-3044, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 0.3.1 or later
Is CVE-2025-3044 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 0.3.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |