# CVE-2025-62426: vLLM vulnerable to DoS via large Chat Completion or Tokenization requests with specially crafted \`chat\_template\_kwargs\`

- Also known as: GHSA-69J4-GRXJ-J64P, PYSEC-2026-2012
- 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: 0.11.1
- Published: 2025-11-21 · Updated: 2025-11-24

## Affected

- vllm-project vllm: from 0.5.5, fixed in 0.11.1
- vllm (PyPI): from 0.5.5, fixed in 0.11.1

## Description

vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From version 0.5.5 to before 0.11.1, the /v1/chat/completions and /tokenize endpoints allow a chat_template_kwargs request parameter that is used in the code before it is properly validated against the chat template. With the right chat_template_kwargs parameters, it is possible to block processing of the API server for long periods of time, delaying all other requests. This issue has been patched in version 0.11.1.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-69j4-grxj-j64p
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/27205
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/3ada34f9cb4d1af763fdfa3b481862a93eb6bd2b
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/2a6dc67eb520ddb9c4138d8b35ed6fe6226997fb/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py#L1602-L1610
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/2a6dc67eb520ddb9c4138d8b35ed6fe6226997fb/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_engine.py#L809-L814

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