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SCA: security update for vllm (GHSA-8fr4-5q9j-m8gm)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 436182

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). Prior to 0.11.1, vllm has a
 critical remote code execution vector in a config class named Nemotron_Nano_VL_Config. When vllm loads a
 model config that contains an auto_map entry, the config class resolves that mapping with
 get_class_from_dynamic_module(...) and immediately instantiates the returned class. This fetches and
 executes Python from the remote repository referenced in the auto_map string. Crucially, this happens even
 when the caller explicitly sets trust_remote_code=False in vllm.transformers_utils.config.get_config. In
 practice, an attacker can publish a benign-looking frontend repo whose config.json points via auto_map to
 a separate malicious backend repo; loading the frontend will silently run the backend’s code on the victim
 host. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.11.1. (CVE-2025-66448)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8fr4-5q9j-m8gm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 436182

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 12/2/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.88

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-66448

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 12/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/1/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-66448

cwe: CWE-94