# CVE-2025-48943: vLLM allows clients to crash the openai server with invalid regex

- Also known as: GHSA-9HCF-V7M4-6M2J, PYSEC-2025-55
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.9.0
- Published: 2025-05-30 · Updated: 2025-05-30

## Affected

- vllm-project vllm: from 0.8.0, fixed in 0.9.0
- vllm (PyPI): from 0.8.0, fixed in 0.9.0

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vllm-project vllm, vllm, upgrade to a fixed version (0.9.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-9hcf-v7m4-6m2j
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/17313
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/17623
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/08bf7840780980c7568c573c70a6a8db94fd45ff

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