CVE-2024-9053: vllm-project vllm RPC server remote code execution via unsafe deserialization

Summary

CVE-2024-9053 affects vllm-project vllm version 0.6.0. In the AsyncEngineRPCServer() RPC server entrypoints, run_server_loop() calls _make_handler_coro(), which passes received messages directly to cloudpickle.loads() without sanitization. The source states this can result in remote code execution by deserializing malicious pickle data.

Mitigation

The source does not state a fix yet. Check the original advisory for updates.

Affected packages in the Exposure Registry

Matched by package name and ecosystem. Each entry shows whether the package delegates to a language model and how many tracked packages depend on it.

• vllmPyPILLM dependency since 2023-08-25 · 15 tracked dependents

Topics

• Inference infrastructure

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