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-Memory crashes by allocating millions of request object copies in the heap before the request even reaches the scheduling queue. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.19.0.
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GHSA-3mwp-wvh9-7528 | vLLM: Unauthenticated OOM Denial of Service via Unbounded `n` Parameter in OpenAI API Server |
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| 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-Memory crashes by allocating millions of request object copies in the heap before the request even reaches the scheduling queue. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.19.0. | |
| Title | vLLM Affected by Unauthenticated OOM Denial of Service via Unbounded `n` Parameter in OpenAI API Server | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-06T15:40:03.448Z
Reserved: 2026-03-30T19:17:10.225Z
Link: CVE-2026-34756
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-06T16:16:36.610
Modified: 2026-04-06T16:16:36.610
Link: CVE-2026-34756
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