CVE-2026-48746
CVE-2026-48746 · vLLM: OpenAI auth bypass
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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.
CVSS 9.1 · Critical · EPSS 1.2% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: python
Affected products and versions
vllm
- Versions
- >= 0.3.0, < 0.22.0: Affected
No fix published
vllm PyPI
- Versions
- 0.10.0
- 0.10.1
- 0.10.1.1
- 0.10.2
- 0.11.0
- 0.11.1
- 0.11.2
- 0.12.0
- 0.13.0
- 0.14.0
- 0.14.1
- 0.15.0
- 0.15.1
- 0.16.0
- 0.17.0
- 0.17.1
- 0.18.0
- 0.18.1
- 0.19.0
- 0.19.1
- 0.20.0
- 0.20.1
- 0.20.2
- 0.21.0
- 0.3.0
- 0.3.1
- 0.3.2
- 0.3.3
- 0.4.0
- 0.4.0.post1
- 0.4.1
- 0.4.2
- 0.4.3
- 0.5.0
- 0.5.0.post1
- 0.5.1
- 0.5.2
- 0.5.3
- 0.5.3.post1
- 0.5.4
- 0.5.5
- 0.6.0
- 0.6.1
- 0.6.1.post1
- 0.6.1.post2
- 0.6.2
- 0.6.3
- 0.6.3.post1
- 0.6.4
- 0.6.4.post1
- 0.6.5
- 0.6.6
- 0.6.6.post1
- 0.7.0
- 0.7.1
- 0.7.2
- 0.7.3
- 0.8.0
- 0.8.1
- 0.8.2
- 0.8.3
- 0.8.4
- 0.8.5
- 0.8.5.post1
- 0.9.0
- 0.9.0.1
- 0.9.1
- 0.9.2
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: ≥ 0.3.0, < 0.22.0
Update to 0.22.0
Original sources
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-94f4-hr76-p5j6
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/43426
- https://x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2026-002-starlette
- 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:61627
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36005
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:61629
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36006
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30089
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30088
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42132
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42142
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:43038
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42644
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48746