GHSA-rxc4-3w6r-4v47
vllm API endpoints vulnerable to Denial of Service Attacks
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2025-48956
- Aliases
- PYSEC-2026-2021
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
### Summary 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. ### Details The vulnerability leverages the abuse of HTTP headers. By setting a header such as `X-Forwarded-For` to a very large value like `("A" * 5_800_000_000)`, the server's HTTP parser or application logic may attempt to load the entire request into memory, overwhelming system resources. ### Impact _What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?_ Type of vulnerability: Denial of Service (DoS) ### Resolution Upgrade to a version of vLLM that includes appropriate HTTP limits by deafult, or use a proxy in front of vLLM which provides protection against this issue.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| PyPI · vllm | introduced 0.1.0, fixed 0.10.1.1 |
References
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-rxc4-3w6r-4v47 WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48956 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/23267 WEB
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/d8b736f913a59117803d6701521d2e4861701944 WEB
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rxc4-3w6r-4v47 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/vllm/PYSEC-2026-2021.yaml WEB
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm PACKAGE
- https://pypi.org/project/vllm WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |