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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2025-48943 EUVD-2025-16515GHSA-9hcf-v7m4-6m2jPYSEC-2025-55

vLLM allows clients to crash the openai server with invalid regex

Published May 30, 2025 · Updated May 30, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
vllm-project vllm >= 0.8.0, < 0.9.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI vllm >= 0.8.0, < 0.9.0 0.9.0 GHSA-9hcf-v7m4-6m2j

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