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CVE-2026-115911: vLLM: DoS via unbounded chat_template Jinja2 rendering exhausts the renderer thread pool

October 28, 2026

vLLM renders chat templates by passing the resolved Jinja2 source to tokenizer.apply_chat_template(), which compiles and .render()s it in an ImmutableSandboxedEnvironment. The sandbox prevents code-execution escapes but imposes no wall-clock timeout, no output-size cap, and no nested-loop or binop limit. The render runs in a ThreadPoolExecutor whose max_workers defaults to 1, and CPython worker threads cannot be interrupted. An authenticated API client (or a malicious model repo loaded with trust_remote_code=False) can therefore submit a single short template and permanently wedge all chat-style endpoints (/v1/chat/completions, /v1/responses, /tokenize, /pooling-chat, /invocations-chat) for every tenant until the process is restarted. A string-multiplication variant instead OOM-kills the API-server process. Because of a separately-reported (GHSA-jmjw-q4x3-hmc2) gate omission on /v1/responses, the remote authenticated attacker vector works in default vllm serve configuration with no operator opt-in.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-542m-9234-8gvf
  • github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/cff08b461e086523cee8bba5bd3c66d302625134
  • github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/50300
  • github.com/vllm-project/vllm/releases/tag/v0.32.0
  • github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-542m-9234-8gvf
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115911

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 0.19.0 before 0.32.0

Fixed versions

  • 0.32.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.32.0 or above.

Impact 6.5 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-834: Excessive Iteration

Source file

pypi/vllm/CVE-2026-115911.yml

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