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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2025-48887
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2025-48887
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Summary vLLM, an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs), has a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the file `vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/pythonic_tool_parser.py` of versions 0.6.4 up to but excluding 0.9.0. The root cause is the use of a highly complex and nested regular expression for tool call detection, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause severe performance degradation or make the service unavailable. The pattern contains multiple nested quantifiers, optional groups, and inner repetitions which make it vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking. Version 0.9.0 contains a patch for the issue.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (1)
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 6.5
ssvc Track
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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at None
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-05-30T17:58:00Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-05-30T17:58:00Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2025/48xxx/CVE-2025-48887.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2025-48887

View SSVC decision tree
[{'Exploitation': 'poc'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]