TI-2025-04913 Aliases CVE-2025-5472 GHSA-3wxx-q3gv-pvvv

Denial of Service via Uncontrolled Recursive JSON Parsing in JSONReader in run-llama/llama_index

MEDIUM 62CWE-674Published 2025-07-07 · Updated 2025-07-07

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Partial Red Hat: 2 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-674.

Summary

The JSONReader in run-llama/llama_index versions 0.12.28 is vulnerable to a stack overflow due to uncontrolled recursive JSON parsing. This vulnerability allows attackers to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by submitting deeply nested JSON structures, leading to a RecursionError and crashing applications. The root cause is the unsafe recursive traversal design and lack of depth validation, which makes the JSONReader susceptible to stack overflow when processing deeply nested JSON. This impacts the availability of services, making them unreliable and disrupting workflows. The issue is resolved in version 0.12.38.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00388 33rd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix Partial run-llama/llama_index (run-llama): 0.12.38llama-index-core (PyPI): 0.12.38Red Hat: 2 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
run-llama	run-llama/llama_index	before 0.12.38	0.12.38	Patch available	CNA
—	llama-index-core (PyPI)	before 0.12.38	0.12.38	Patch available	GHSA-3wxx-q3gv-pvvv

run-llama/llama_index Vendorrun-llama Affected before 0.12.38 Fixed in 0.12.38 Patch available CNA
llama-index-core (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 0.12.38 Fixed in 0.12.38 Patch available GHSA-3wxx-q3gv-pvvv

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:llamaindex:llamaindex::::::::	0.12.28 to before 0.12.38	Vulnerable	run-llama

cpe:2.3:a:llamaindex:llamaindex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 0.12.28 to before 0.12.38 Vulnerable ·run-llama

Remediation

Fix · CNA run-llama/llama_index (run-llama) Fixed in 0.12.38
Fix · GHSA-3wxx-q3gv-pvvv llama-index-core (PyPI) Fixed in 0.12.38 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
OpenShift Lightspeed	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-5472
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3wxx-q3gv-pvvv

References

TI-2025-01545 SQL Injection in run-llama/llama_index CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2025-01507 SQL Injection in run-llama/llama_index CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-11960 SQL Injection to RCE in run-llama/llama_index CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-11094 SQL Injection in run-llama/llama_index CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-03068 Command Injection in run-llama/llama_index CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-15754 LlamaIndex (aka llama_index) through 0.9.34 allows SQL injection via the Text-to-SQL… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8

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Sources

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