Description
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From versions 0.10.2 to before 0.11.1, a memory corruption vulnerability could lead to a crash (denial-of-service) and potentially remote code execution (RCE), exists in the Completions API endpoint. When processing user-supplied prompt embeddings, the endpoint loads serialized tensors using torch.load() without sufficient validation. Due to a change introduced in PyTorch 2.8.0, sparse tensor integrity checks are disabled by default. As a result, maliciously crafted tensors can bypass internal bounds checks and trigger an out-of-bounds memory write during the call to to_dense(). This memory corruption can crash vLLM and potentially lead to code execution on the server hosting vLLM. This issue has been patched in version 0.11.1.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| vllm-project | vllm | >= 0.10.2, < 0.11.1 |
References
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/58fab50d82838d5014f4a14d991fdb9352c9c84bPatch
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/27204Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-mrw7-hf4f-83pfIssue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Nov 21, 2025
- Last modified
- Oct 19, 2026
- NVD status
- Analyzed