CVE-2025-62164

VLLM deserialization vulnerability leading to DoS and potential RCE

Published Nov 21, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 8.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From versions 0.10.2 to before 0.11.1, a memory corruption vulnerability could lead to a crash (denial-of-service) and potentially remote code execution (RCE), exists in the Completions API endpoint. When processing user-supplied prompt embeddings, the endpoint loads serialized tensors using torch.load() without sufficient validation. Due to a change introduced in PyTorch 2.8.0, sparse tensor integrity checks are disabled by default. As a result, maliciously crafted tensors can bypass internal bounds checks and trigger an out-of-bounds memory write during the call to to_dense(). This memory corruption can crash vLLM and potentially lead to code execution on the server hosting vLLM. This issue has been patched in version 0.11.1.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-mrw7-hf4f-83pf vLLM deserialization vulnerability leading to DoS and potential RCE
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Vllm
Vllm vllm
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.11.1:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.11.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Vllm
Vllm vllm
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Vllm-project
Vllm-project vllm
Vendors & Products Vllm-project
Vllm-project vllm
Type Values Removed Values Added
Description vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From versions 0.10.2 to before 0.11.1, a memory corruption vulnerability could lead to a crash (denial-of-service) and potentially remote code execution (RCE), exists in the Completions API endpoint. When processing user-supplied prompt embeddings, the endpoint loads serialized tensors using torch.load() without sufficient validation. Due to a change introduced in PyTorch 2.8.0, sparse tensor integrity checks are disabled by default. As a result, maliciously crafted tensors can bypass internal bounds checks and trigger an out-of-bounds memory write during the call to to_dense(). This memory corruption can crash vLLM and potentially lead to code execution on the server hosting vLLM. This issue has been patched in version 0.11.1.
Title VLLM deserialization vulnerability leading to DoS and potential RCE
Weaknesses CWE-123
CWE-20
CWE-502
CWE-787
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Nov 24, 2025, 6:12 PM
Reserved
Oct 7, 2025, 4:12 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Nov 21, 2025, 2:15 AM
Modified
Oct 19, 2026, 1:10 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Nov 21, 2025, 1:18 AM