PYSEC-2026-2300
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2026-41523
- Aliases
- GHSA-q8gq-377p-jq3r
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). Prior to 0.22.0, an assert-based security check in vLLM's activation function loading allows any unauthenticated attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution on the server by publishing a malicious HuggingFace model, when vLLM runs in Python optimized mode (python -O or PYTHONOPTIMIZE=1). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.22.0.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| PyPI · vllm | introduced 0, fixed 0.22.0 |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-41523 WEB
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-41523.json WEB
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36005 ADVISORY
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36006 ADVISORY
- https://huntr.com/bounties/dcb05b04-e625-41e7-adbc-bbae0cc2d64c ADVISORY
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2491582 REPORT
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/b3c7ffcab82c2439726f8cb213800f6f38c023d3 FIX
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-q8gq-377p-jq3r EVIDENCE
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database |