CVE-2024-8768

Published: Sep 17, 2024

Modified: Nov 20, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.5

HIGH

Description

A flaw was found in the vLLM library. A completions API request with an empty prompt will crash the vLLM API server, resulting in a denial of service.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	vllm	affected `0 - < 0.5.5`
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI)	All versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI)	All versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-617

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8768

vdb-entry

x_refsource_REDHAT

RHBZ#2311895

issue-tracking

x_refsource_REDHAT

https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/7632

https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/7746

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CVE-2024-8768

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

References