CVE-2025-5302

Published: Aug 25, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

8.6

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 4.7

Source: security@huntr.dev (Secondary)

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.

Related CWEs

CWE-674

Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

References (2)

https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/commit/c032843a02ce38fd8f284b2aa5a37fd1c17ae635

Source: security@huntr.dev

https://huntr.com/bounties/70041b81-de9e-4046-8c0e-6ccd557048a6

Source: security@huntr.dev

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