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GHSA-j828-28rj-hfhp: vLLM vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service

OSV AI package advisories · observation · May 28, 2025 · UTC

### Summary A recent review identified several regular expressions in the vllm codebase that are susceptible to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks. These patterns, if fed with crafted or malicious input, may cause severe performance degradation due to catastrophic backtracking. #### 1. vllm/lora/utils.py [Line 173](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/2858830c39da0ae153bc1328dbba7680f5fbebe1/vllm/lora/utils.py#L173) https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/2858830c39da0ae153bc1328dbba7680f5fbebe1/vllm/lora/utils.py#L173 **Risk Description:** - The regex `r"\((.*?)\)\$?$

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