CVE-2026-34756 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Vllm
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 91.20%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 6
Description
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.1.0 to before 0.19.0, a Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the vLLM OpenAI-compatible API server. Due to the lack of an upper bound validation on the n parameter in the ChatCompletionRequest and CompletionRequest Pydantic models, an unauthenticated attacker can send a single HTTP request with an astronomically large n value. This completely blocks the Python asyncio event loop and causes immediate Out-Of-Memo…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages2 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
1Red Hat▶
vllm: vLLM: Denial of Service via excessively large 'n' parameter in OpenAI-compatible API↗2026-04-06
🕵️Threat Intelligence
5💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2026-34756 vllm: vLLM: Denial of Service via excessively large 'n' parameter in OpenAI-compatible API↗2026-04-06