GHSA-jvpf-xf32-2w4q: LlamaIndex Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

Summary

A flaw in the KnowledgeBaseWebReader class of the run-llama/llama_index repository, version latest, lets an attacker control a URL variable so that it contains the root URL. This triggers infinite recursive calls to the get_article_urls method, which exhausts system resources and can crash the application, resulting in a Denial of Service.

Mitigation

The source does not state a fix yet. Check the original advisory for updates.

Affected packages in the Exposure Registry

Matched by package name and ecosystem. Each entry shows whether the package delegates to a language model and how many tracked packages depend on it.

• llama-indexPyPILLM dependency since 2023-02-16 · 12 tracked dependents

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