CVE-2026-34756
Low
No strong exploitation signal.
CVSS base
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
0.8%
53.6th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-1284
Published 2026-04-06 · modified 2026-08-25
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
| Attack Vector | N | Network |
| Attack Complexity | L | Low |
| Privileges Required | L | Low |
| User Interaction | N | None |
| Scope | U | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | N | None |
| Integrity | N | None |
| Availability | H | High |
Timeline
- 2026-04-06 — Published (NVD)
- 2026-08-25 — Last modified (NVD)
Description
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.1.0 to before 0.19.0, a Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the vLLM OpenAI-compatible API server. Due to the lack of an upper bound validation on the n parameter in the ChatCompletionRequest and CompletionRequest Pydantic models, an unauthenticated attacker can send a single HTTP request with an astronomically large n value. This completely blocks the Python asyncio event loop and causes immediate Out-Of-Memory crashes by allocating millions of request object copies in the heap before the request even reaches the scheduling queue. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.19.0.
Affected
References
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/b111f8a61f100fdca08706f41f29ef3548de7380
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/37952
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-3mwp-wvh9-7528
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36005
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36006
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57380
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57387
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57389
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57390
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:59144
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:59151
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-34756
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2455425
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-34756.json