CVE-2025-3225 (GCVE-0-2025-3225)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-07 09:54
Modified
2025-07-07 14:59
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-776 - Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs
Summary
An XML Entity Expansion vulnerability, also known as a 'billion laughs' attack, exists in the sitemap parser of the run-llama/llama_index repository, specifically affecting version v0.12.21. This vulnerability allows an attacker to supply a malicious Sitemap XML, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) by exhausting system memory and potentially causing a system crash. The issue is resolved in version v0.12.29.
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run-llama run-llama/llama_index Version: unspecified   < v0.12.29
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