GHSA-3wxx-q3gv-pvvv: LlamaIndex vulnerable to DoS attack through uncontrolled recursive JSON parsing

Summary

The JSONReader in run-llama/llama_index version 0.12.28 is vulnerable to a stack overflow caused by uncontrolled recursive JSON parsing. An attacker can submit deeply nested JSON structures to trigger a RecursionError, crashing the application and causing a Denial of Service.

Mitigation

The issue is resolved in version 0.12.38.

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-index-corePyPILLM dependency since 2024-02-02 · 34 tracked dependents

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