A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability has been identified in the KnowledgeBaseWebReader class of the run-llama/llamaindex project, affecting version ~ latest(v0.12.15). The vulnerability arises due to inappropriate secure coding measures, specifically the lack of proper implementation of the maxdepth parameter in the getarticleurls function. This allows an attacker to exhaust Python's recursion limit through repeated function calls, leading to resource consumption and ultimately crashing the Python process.
{ "nvd_published_at": "2025-05-10T14:15:32Z", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-400" ], "severity": "HIGH", "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2025-05-12T20:16:19Z" }