Information Exposure Affecting vllm package, versions [,0.26.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-VLLM-18857112
  • published16 Aug 2026
  • disclosed13 Aug 2026
  • creditDiego Meyer

Introduced: 13 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-73555  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-209  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vllm to version 0.26.0 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 Information Exposure via the validation_exception_handler function. An attacker can obtain sensitive information such as operating system usernames, internal file paths, Python version, and internal package structure by sending unauthenticated malformed JSON requests to specific API endpoints.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1