Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting vllm package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.3% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-VLLM-19823684
  • published15 Sept 2026
  • disclosed15 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-90878  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

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 in the Jinja Template Rendering of the /v1/chat/completions endpoint when manipulating the chat_template argument. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption by submitting crafted input to this argument.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1