CVE-2024-12704CWE-835

Denial of Service (DoS) in run-llama/llama_index

High · published March 20, 2025

CVSS v3.0
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
57.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability in the LangChainLLM class of the run-llama/llama_index repository, version v0.12.5, allows for a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. The stream_complete method executes the llm using a thread and retrieves the result via the get_response_gen method of the StreamingGeneratorCallbackHandler class. If the thread terminates abnormally before the _llm.predict is executed, there is no exception handling for this case, leading to an infinite loop in the get_response_gen function. This can be triggered by providing an input of an incorrect type, causing the thread to terminate and the process to continue running indefinitely.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00831 · 57.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Published
2025-03-20T10:09Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 MAR 10:09Z
    Denial of Service (DoS) in run-llama/llama_index
    cvelistv5