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CVE-2025-48943GHSA-9HCF-V7M4-6M2JPYSEC-2025-55

vLLM allows clients to crash the openai server with invalid regex

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.9.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). Version 0.8.0 up to but excluding 0.9.0 have a Denial of Service (ReDoS) that causes the vLLM server to crash if an invalid regex was provided while using structured output. This vulnerability is similar to GHSA-6qc9-v4r8-22xg/CVE-2025-48942, but for regex instead of a JSON schema. Version 0.9.0 fixes the issue.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • vllm-project vllm

    From 0.8.0 · fixed in 0.9.0

  • vllmPyPI

    From 0.8.0 · fixed in 0.9.0

References 4

GitHub · vllm-project/vllm