CVE-2026-34756Allocation 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

PyPIvllm/vllm0.1.00.19.0
CVEListV5vllm-project/vllm>= 0.1.0, < 0.19.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
vLLM: Unauthenticated OOM Denial of Service via Unbounded `n` Parameter in OpenAI API Server2026-04-03
OSV
vLLM: Unauthenticated OOM Denial of Service via Unbounded `n` Parameter in OpenAI API Server2026-04-03

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
vllm: vLLM: Denial of Service via excessively large 'n' parameter in OpenAI-compatible API2026-04-06

🕵️Threat Intelligence

5
Wiz
CVE-2026-34755 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
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CVE-2026-25960 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
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GHSA-mcmc-2m55-j8jj Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
Wiz
CVE-2026-34753 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
Wiz
CVE-2026-34756 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2026-34756 vllm: vLLM: Denial of Service via excessively large 'n' parameter in OpenAI-compatible API2026-04-06