CVE-2025-62164
VLLM deserialization vulnerability leading to DoS and potential RCE
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.96 % · percentile 62 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- GitHub_M
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Description
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From versions 0.10.2 to before 0.11.1, a memory corruption vulnerability could lead to a crash (denial-of-service) and potentially remote code execution (RCE), exists in the Completions API endpoint. When processing user-supplied prompt embeddings, the endpoint loads serialized tensors using torch.load() without sufficient validation. Due to a change introduced in PyTorch 2.8.0, sparse tensor integrity checks are disabled by default. As a result, maliciously crafted tensors can bypass internal bounds checks and trigger an out-of-bounds memory write during the call to to_dense(). This memory corruption can crash vLLM and potentially lead to code execution on the server hosting vLLM. This issue has been patched in version 0.11.1.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
- CWE-123 — Write-what-where Condition
- CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data
- CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | GitHub_M |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary) |
Advisories
- GHSA-mrw7-hf4f-83pf — vLLM deserialization vulnerability leading to DoS and potential RCE
- PYSEC-2026-2018 — vLLM deserialization vulnerability leading to DoS and potential RCE
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-198314
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-62164
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-1138 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans VMware Tanzu Platform · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 0.10.2 < 0.11.1cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.11.1:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.11.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| vllm-project · vllm | affected >= 0.10.2, < 0.11.1 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |