CVE-2024-12910
LlamaIndex Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
5.9
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.35%
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.
How to fix CVE-2024-12910
To remediate CVE-2024-12910, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 0.12.9 or later
- —upgrade to 159ce485a1168100bb219dc1b93133f1121579d9 or later
Is CVE-2024-12910 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.12.9
- from 0, < 159ce485a1168100bb219dc1b93133f1121579d9 | from 0, < 0.12.9
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |