CVE-2024-8768

Affects: vLLM

CVSS: HIGH · 7.5v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published: 2024-09-17
Weakness: CWE-617
Source: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8768

Description

A flaw was found in the vLLM library. A completions API request with an empty prompt will crash the vLLM API server, resulting in a denial of service.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8768
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2311895
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/7632
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/7746

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