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SCA: security update for vllm (GHSA-wr9h-g72x-mwhm)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435528

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). Before version 0.11.0rc2, the
 API key support in vLLM performs validation using a method that was vulnerable to a timing attack. API key
 validation uses a string comparison that takes longer the more characters the provided API key gets
 correct. Data analysis across many attempts could allow an attacker to determine when it finds the next
 correct character in the key sequence. Deployments relying on vLLM's built-in API key validation are
 vulnerable to authentication bypass using this technique. Version 0.11.0rc2 fixes the issue.
 (CVE-2025-59425)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wr9h-g72x-mwhm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435528

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.88

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-59425

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-59425

cwe: CWE-385