Medium (5.9) in llamaindex llamaindex. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in llama-index 0.12.9.
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.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.9 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 53% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)