CVE-2026-48746
9.1
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 5.2
Source: security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
Description
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.3.0 until 0.22.0, a vulnerability in ASGI web servers and starlette's trust on those web servers enables an authentication bypass of the OpenAI API AuthenticationMiddleware. It allows to use the API without providing the configured VLLM_API_KEY or --api-key. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.22.0.
Affected (1)
Related CWEs
CWE-444
Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
The product acts as an intermediary HTTP agent
(such as a proxy or firewall) in the data flow between two
entities such as a client and server, but it does not
interpret malformed HTTP requests or responses in ways that
are consistent with how the messages will be processed by
those entities that are at the ultimate destination.
CWE-501
Trust Boundary Violation
The product mixes trusted and untrusted data in the same data structure or structured message.
References (11)
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Third Party Advisory
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Third Party Advisory
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Source: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
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Source: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
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Third Party Advisory
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