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 VLLMAPIKEY or --api-key. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.22.0.
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"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/48xxx/CVE-2026-48746.json",
"cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-444"
]
}