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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2025-3044 json

MD5 Hash Collision in run-llama/llama_index

published 2025-07-07 16 mo ago modified 2026-07-13 3 mo ago also GHSA-p7j4-jwjf-5x9w , PYSEC-2025-247 , PYSEC-2026-1569 , EUVD-2025-20218

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 25%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability in the ArxivReader class of the run-llama/llama_index repository, versions up to v0.12.22.post1, allows for MD5 hash collisions when generating filenames for downloaded papers. This can lead to data loss as papers with identical titles but different contents may overwrite each other, preventing some papers from being processed for AI model training. The issue is resolved in version 0.12.28.

Patch / fix

  • pypi llama-index-readers-papers 0.3.1
  • pypi llama-index 0.12.28
  • run-llama run-llama/llama_index 0.12.28

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-3044 updated cvss 5.3

llama-index: MD5 Hash Collision in llama_index

  • Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-service-api-rhel9, openshift-lightspeed-tech-preview/lightspeed-rag-tool-rhel9 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-24/de-minimal-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-24/de-minimal-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-25/de-minimal-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-25/de-minimal-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-supported-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-supported-rhel9, +5 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
16 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • huntr.com https://huntr.com/bounties/80182c3a-876f-422f-8bac-38267e0345d6 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
OSV 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi llama-index-readers-papers
<0.3.1
0.3.1
pypi llama-index
<0.12.28
0.12.28

Affected products

  • run-llama run-llama/llama_index

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-440 Expected Behavior Violation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.