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Advisory details: pypa / vllm/PYSEC-2026-227
Advisory ID pypa/vllm/PYSEC-2026-227
Aliases CVE-2026-54232
GHSA-jrf6-vqxq-pjv2
PYSEC-2026-227
Summary vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). Prior to 0.22.1, the vLLM Dockerfile is vulnerable to a dependency confusion attack through the flashinfer-jit-cache package. The package is installed from a custom index (flashinfer.ai/whl/) using --extra-index-url, but the package name was not registered on PyPI, and UV_INDEX_STRATEGY="unsafe-best-match" is set globally. An attacker who registers flashinfer-jit-cache on PyPI with version 0.6.11.post2 can execute arbitrary code as root during the Docker build and backdoor every resulting container image, enabling exfiltration of all user prompts, API credentials, and model data from production vLLM deployments This vulnerability is fixed in 0.22.1.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.9
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/vllm/PYSEC-2026-227.yaml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-jrf6-vqxq-pjv2
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/vllm/PYSEC-2026-227.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-06-23T14:29:54Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2026/54xxx/CVE-2026-54232.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2026-54232

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 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'total'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]