CVE-2026-115918: vLLM: Responses API bypasses trust_request_chat_template for chat_template_kwargs

vLLM’s /v1/responses endpoint accepts request-level chat_template_kwargs, but does not apply the --trust-request-chat-template gate that protects Chat Completions, render, tokenize, and pooling paths.

When the server is run with the documented default trust_request_chat_template=False and no explicit --chat-template, a Responses request can pass:

{"chat_template_kwargs": {"chat_template": "<attacker Jinja template>"}}

That key is preserved by ChatParams.get_apply_chat_template_kwargs() and then bound as the chat_template parameter to the shared HF renderer. Prior vLLM advisories establish that request-controlled Jinja chat templates can cause CPU/memory exhaustion. This report covers the current-head Responses sibling path missed by the earlier fixes.