CVE-2024-8768
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.03%vLLM denial of service vulnerability
Published: 9/17/2024Modified: 2/4/2026
Description
A flaw was found in the vLLM library. A completions API request with an empty prompt will crash the vLLM API server, resulting in a denial of service.
Affected packages (1)
- PyPI/vllmfrom 0, < 0.5.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8768
- PATCHhttps://github.com/vllm-project/vllm
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8768
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2311895
- WEBhttps://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/e25fee57c2e69161bd261f5986dc5aeb198bbd42
- WEBhttps://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/7632
- WEBhttps://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/7746