Описание
vLLM deserialization vulnerability leading to DoS and potential RCE
Summary
A memory corruption vulnerability that leading to a crash (denial-of-service) and potentially remote code execution (RCE) exists in vLLM versions 0.10.2 and later, 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.
Details
A vulnerability that can lead to RCE from the completions API endpoint exists in vllm, where due to missing checks when loading user-provided tensors, an out-of-bounds write can be triggered. This happens because the default behavior of torch.load(tensor, weights_only=True) since pytorch 2.8.0 is to not perform validity checks for sparse tensors, and this needs to be enabled explicitly using the torch.sparse.check_sparse_tensor_invariants context manager.
The vulnerability is in the following code in vllm/entrypoints/renderer.py:148
Because of the missing checks, loading invalid prompt embedding tensors provided by the user can cause an out-of-bounds write in the call to to_dense .
Impact
All users with access to this API are able to exploit this vulnerability. Unsafe deserialization of untrusted input can be abused to achieve DoS and potentially remote code execution (RCE) in the vLLM server process. This impacts deployments running vLLM as a server or any instance that deserializes untrusted/model-provided payloads.
Fix
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/27204
Acknowledgements
Finder: AXION Security Research Team (Omri Fainaro, Bary Levy): discovery and coordinated disclosure.
Пакеты
vllm
>= 0.10.2, < 0.11.1
0.11.1
Связанные уязвимости
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.
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLM ...
Уязвимость компонента Completions API библиотеки для работы с большими языковыми моделями (LLM) vLLM, позволяющая нарушителю вызвать отказ в обслуживании и выполнить произвольный код