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🛡️ CVE-2024-12911 — llama-index

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-379 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

LlamaIndex vulnerable to Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions

A vulnerability in the default_jsonalyzer function of the JSONalyzeQueryEngine in the run-llama/llama_index repository allows for SQL injection via prompt injection. This can lead to arbitrary file creation and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerability affects the latest version and is fixed in version 0.12.3.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-12911 is classified as CWE-379: Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions. The product creates a temporary file in a directory whose permissions allow unintended actors to determine the file's existence or otherwise access that file.

Affected software

CVE-2024-12911 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • llama-index (fixed in 0.12.3)
  • llamaindex (fixed in 0.5.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 20 March 2025 and last revised on 7 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
huntr.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

llama-index has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-379: Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CWE CWE-379
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-03-20
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-07

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
llama-index — 0.12.3
llamaindex — 0.5.1

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