AI agent vulnerability · LlamaIndex

CVE-2024-12910: LlamaIndex Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

mediumCVSS 3.1 5.9GHSA-jvpf-xf32-2w4q

A vulnerability in the KnowledgeBaseWebReader class of the run-llama/llamaindex 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 getarticleurls method, exhausting system resources and potentially crashing the application.

Published Mar 20, 2025 · Updated Oct 15, 2025

Affected packages

llama-index

Ecosystem: PyPI
Affected: < 0.12.9
Fixed in: 0.12.9
Check: pip show llama-index

Advisory details

From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).

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.

References

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