Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the JSONReader component of the run-llama/llama_index repository, specifically in version v0.12.37. The vulnerability is caused by uncontrolled recursion when parsing deeply nested JSON files, which can lead to Python hitting its maximum recursion depth limit. This results in high resource consumption and potential crashes of the Python process. The issue is resolved in version 0.12.38.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-08-25T15:03:18.097Z

Last Modified :

2025-08-25T15:41:08.676Z

Source :

@huntr_ai
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-5302 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Run-llama
  • Llama Index
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https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/commit/c032843a02ce38fd8f284b2aa5a37fd1c17ae635 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://huntr.com/bounties/70041b81-de9e-4046-8c0e-6ccd557048a6 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5302 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5302 cve-icon
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