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SCA: security update for vllm (GHSA-rxc4-3w6r-4v47)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435045

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). From 0.1.0 to before 0.10.1.1, a
 Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability can be triggered by sending a single HTTP GET request with an
 extremely large header to an HTTP endpoint. This results in server memory exhaustion, potentially leading
 to a crash or unresponsiveness. The attack does not require authentication, making it exploitable by any
 remote user. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.1.1. (CVE-2025-48956)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rxc4-3w6r-4v47

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435045

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/21/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-48956

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-48956

cwe: CWE-400