Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting llama-index-readers-web package, versions [,0.3.6)
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- published13 May 2025
- disclosed10 May 2025
- creditsiriusbellatrix
Introduced: 10 May 2025
CVE-2025-1752 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade llama-index-readers-web to version 0.3.6 or higher.
Overview
llama-index-readers-web is a llama-index readers web integration
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion due to improper handling of the max_depth parameter in the get_article_urls function. An attacker can exhaust system resources and crash the application through repeated function calls, ultimately exceeding Python's recursion limit.