Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting vllm package, versions [,0.10.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-VLLM-12177849
  • published24 Aug 2025
  • disclosed21 Aug 2025
  • creditJuan Pérez de Algaba

Introduced: 21 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-48956  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vllm to version 0.10.1.1 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 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to an HTTP GET request with an extremely large header being sent. An attacker can exhaust server memory and cause a crash or unresponsiveness by sending such a request. The attack does not require authentication, making it exploitable by any remote user.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1