GHSA-hj4w-hm2g-p6w5

vLLM Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via Mooncake Integration

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2025-32444
Aliases
PYSEC-2025-42
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

## Impacted Deployments **Note that vLLM instances that do NOT make use of the mooncake integration are NOT vulnerable.** ## Description vLLM integration with mooncake is vaulnerable to remote code execution due to using `pickle` based serialization over unsecured ZeroMQ sockets. The vulnerable sockets were set to listen on all network interfaces, increasing the likelihood that an attacker is able to reach the vulnerable ZeroMQ sockets to carry out an attack. This is a similar to [GHSA - x3m8 - f7g5 - qhm7](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-x3m8-f7g5-qhm7), the problem is in https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/32b14baf8a1f7195ca09484de3008063569b43c5/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_pipe/mooncake_pipe.py#L179 Here [recv_pyobj()](https://github.com/zeromq/pyzmq/blob/453f00c5645a3bea40d79f53aa8c47d85038dc2d/zmq/sugar/socket.py#L961) Contains implicit `pickle.loads()`, which leads to potential RCE.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · vllmintroduced 0.6.5, fixed 0.8.5

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database