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SCA: security update for vllm (GHSA-94f4-hr76-p5j6)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 443271

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 0.3.0 until 0.22.0, a
 vulnerability in ASGI web servers and starlette's trust on those web servers enables an authentication
 bypass of the OpenAI API AuthenticationMiddleware. It allows to use the API without providing the
 configured VLLM_API_KEY or --api-key. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.22.0. (CVE-2026-48746)

Solution

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

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-94f4-hr76-p5j6

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 443271

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/16/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.64

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-48746

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-48746

cwe: CWE-444