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incidents/AIR-2025-0290

CVE-2025-48887: vLLM ReDoS Vulnerability in pythonic_tool_parser

Attack on AI2 Disclosed vulnerabilityInfrastructure vulnerability

A Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability exists in vLLM's tool parser due to complex nested regular expressions. Attackers can exploit this to cause service unavailability.

disclosed CVENo confirmed exploitation, so this record is tracked as a disclosed vulnerability and not counted as an incident. It moves into the counts if CISA or the vendor confirms exploitation. Why

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Infrastructure vulnerability
    CVEs and advisories in AI frameworks, inference servers, MCP servers, AI developer tools and hosting stacks.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
no technique for these categories
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
2 · Disclosed vulnerability
CVE or vendor advisory, patched or patchable, no confirmed exploitation.
targets
Framework / tooling
products
vLLM
incident date
28 May 2025
first reported
28 May 2025
origin
GitHub Advisory Database
Vulnerability record from NVD / the GitHub Advisory Database. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
CVE-2025-48887 · vllm · redos
record
created 2026-10-18 07:00Z · updated 2026-10-18 10:04Z · json

Sources · 2

  1. 2025-05-28
    CVE-2025-48887: vLLM has a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS, Exponential Complexity) Vulnerability in `pythonic_tool_parser.py`
    GitHub Advisory Database · github.com/advisories/GHSA-w6q7-j642-7c25
  2. 2025-05-30
    CVE-2025-48887: vLLM, an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs), has a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)…
    NVD · nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48887

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