Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting vllm package, versions [,0.8.0)
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- published20 Mar 2025
- disclosed19 Mar 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 19 Mar 2025
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How to fix?
Upgrade vllm to version 0.8.0 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 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in outlines_logits_processors.py module, which uses a local cache with unbounded size by default. An attacker can occupy all space on the target system by sending a stream of decoding requests with different schemas, adding indefinitely to the outlines cache.