SCA: security update for vllm (GHSA-6qc9-v4r8-22xg)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427760

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). In versions 0.8.0 up to but
excluding 0.9.0, hitting the /v1/completions API with a invalid json_schema as a Guided Param kills the
vllm server. This vulnerability is similar GHSA-9hcf-v7m4-6m2j/CVE-2025-48943, but for regex instead of a
JSON schema. Version 0.9.0 fixes the issue. (CVE-2025-48942)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6qc9-v4r8-22xg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427760

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-48942

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-48942

cwe: CWE-248