github - ghsa-7753-xrfw-ch36

ghsa-7753-xrfw-ch36

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-08-26 00:31

Modified

2025-08-26 17:43

Severity ?

8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Summary

LlamaIndex affected by a Denial of Service (DOS) in JSONReader

Details

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the JSONReader component of the run-llama/llama_index repository, specifically in version v0.12.37. The vulnerability is caused by uncontrolled recursion when parsing deeply nested JSON files, which can lead to Python hitting its maximum recursion depth limit. This results in high resource consumption and potential crashes of the Python process. The issue is resolved in version 0.12.38.

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      },
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  "id": "GHSA-7753-xrfw-ch36",
  "modified": "2025-08-26T17:43:43Z",
  "published": "2025-08-26T00:31:13Z",
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}

CVE-2025-5302 (GCVE-0-2025-5302)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-08-25 15:03

Modified

2025-08-25 15:41

Severity ?

8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

CWE

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://huntr.com/bounties/70041b81-de9e-4046-8c0e-6ccd557048a6
	https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/commit/c032843a02ce38fd8f284b2aa5a37fd1c17ae635

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	run-llama	run-llama/llama_index	Version: unspecified < 0.12.38

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Author	Source	Type	Date

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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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