CVE-2025-48956 (GCVE-0-2025-48956)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-21 14:41 – Updated: 2025-08-21 15:02
VLAI
Title
vLLM API endpoints vulnerable to Denial of Service Attacks
Summary
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.1.0 to before 0.10.1.1, a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability can be triggered by sending a single HTTP GET request with an extremely large header to an HTTP endpoint. This results in server memory exhaustion, potentially leading to a crash or unresponsiveness. The attack does not require authentication, making it exploitable by any remote user. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.1.1.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vllm-project vllm Affected: >= 0.1.0, < 0.10.1.1
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