Timing Attack Affecting vllm package, versions [,0.9.0)
Threat Intelligence
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- published5 Jun 2025
- disclosed29 May 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 29 May 2025
CVE-2025-46570 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade vllm to version 0.9.0 or higher.
Overview
vllm is an A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack due to the PageAttention mechanism. An attacker can observe timing differences to infer details about the processed data by analyzing the time variations in the TTFT (Time to First Token) in environments sharing the same backend.