Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting llama-index-readers-web package, versions [,0.3.3)
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- published23 Mar 2025
- disclosed20 Mar 2025
- creditlife-team2024
Introduced: 20 Mar 2025
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How to fix?
Upgrade llama-index-readers-web to version 0.3.3 or higher.
Overview
llama-index-readers-web is a llama-index readers web integration
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion via the KnowledgeBaseWebReader class's get_article_urls() function. An attacker can trigger a crash by supplying a URL to an object containing an href reference to the root directory, causing infinite recursive traversal. E.g. <a class="article-link" href="/">