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SCA: security update for vllm (GHSA-q8gq-377p-jq3r)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 443299

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 0.22.0, an assert-based
 security check in vLLM's activation function loading allows any unauthenticated attacker to achieve
 arbitrary code execution on the server by publishing a malicious HuggingFace model, when vLLM runs in
 Python optimized mode (python -O or PYTHONOPTIMIZE=1). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.22.0.
 (CVE-2026-41523)

Solution

Update the vllm library and its related packages to version 0.22.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q8gq-377p-jq3r

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 443299

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/16/2026

Updated: 7/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.03

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41523

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 6/16/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41523