Expected Behavior Violation Affecting llama-index-readers-papers package, versions [,0.3.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.04% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-LLAMAINDEXREADERSPAPERS-10645578
  • published8 Jul 2025
  • disclosed7 Jul 2025
  • creditSirius

Introduced: 7 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-3044  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-440  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade llama-index-readers-papers to version 0.3.2 or higher.

Overview

llama-index-readers-papers is a llama-index readers papers integration

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Expected Behavior Violation via the ArxivReader process. An attacker can cause data loss by uploading papers with identical titles but different contents, resulting in one paper overwriting another due to MD5 hash collisions during filename generation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1