GHSA-7c85-87cp-mr6g: LlamaIndex Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)

Summary

A Denial of Service vulnerability affects the KnowledgeBaseWebReader class in the run-llama/llama_index project, reported against version ~ latest(v0.12.15). The flaw stems from the max_depth parameter not being properly enforced in the get_article_urls function. An attacker can exhaust Python's recursion limit through repeated function calls, consuming resources and crashing the Python process.

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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