vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.3.0 until 0.22.0, a vulnerability in ASGI web servers and starlette's trust on those web servers enables an authentica…
Critical CVSS 9.1
Summary
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.3.0 until 0.22.0, a vulnerability in ASGI web servers and starlette's trust on those web servers enables an authentication bypass of the OpenAI API AuthenticationMiddleware. It allows to use the API without providing the configured VLLM_API_KEY or --api-key. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.22.0.
In-depth triage · Auto channel
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
- :
Lint boundary warnings (2)
The following non-blocking warnings were raised during the lint phase of this triage (e.g. reference URLs not yet on the allowlist). They do not affect entry usability and are disclosed for transparency (see DR-002).
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REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: https://x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2026-002-starlette -
REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: https://x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2026-002-starlette
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/43426 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-94f4-hr76-p5j6 Third Party Advisory
- https://x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2026-002-starlette Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30088
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30089
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36005
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36006
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42132
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42142
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42644
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:43038
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48746
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2491581
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-48746.json
- https://x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2026-002-starlette Third Party Advisory
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD