CVE-2024-12910

Denial of Service in run-llama/llama_index

Published Mar 20, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-6965 LlamaIndex Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-jvpf-xf32-2w4q LlamaIndex Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-674
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Llamaindex
Llamaindex llamaindex
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:llamaindex:llamaindex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Llamaindex
Llamaindex llamaindex
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Denial of Service in run-llama/llama_index
Weaknesses CWE-400
References
Metrics cvssV3_0

{'score': 4.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
@huntr_ai
Published
Updated
Oct 15, 2025, 12:50 PM
Reserved
Dec 24, 2024, 7:49 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 20, 2025, 10:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 7:00 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Mar 20, 2025, 10:09 AM