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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-73559 EUVD-2026-58067GHSA-87x5-vmc3-756jPYSEC-2026-3704

vLLM: Completion prompt lists fan out into unbounded engine requests

Published Aug 13, 2026 · Updated Aug 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models. From 0.19.0 until 0.26.0, the /v1/completions CompletionRequest.prompt field in vllm/entrypoints/openai/completion/protocol.py accepts an unbounded list[str] or list[list[int]], prompt_to_seq() in vllm/renderers/inputs/preprocess.py and OnlineRenderer.preprocess_completion() in vllm/renderers/online_renderer.py expand every element, and vllm/entrypoints/openai/completion/serving.py creates one engine generator and response slot per prompt, allowing an authenticated API client to exhaust CPU, memory, async scheduling capacity, engine request slots, and response buffering with one request. This issue is fixed in version 0.26.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
vllm-project vllm >= 0.19.0, < 0.26.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI vllm >= 0.19.0, < 0.26.0 0.26.0 GHSA-87x5-vmc3-756j

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