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GHSA-94f4-hr76-p5j6: vLLM: OpenAI auth bypass

OSV AI package advisories · observation · Jun 16, 2026 · UTC

### Summary A vulnerability in ASGI web servers and starlette's trust on those web servers enables an authentication bypass of the OpenAI API `AuthenticationMiddleware`, which was discovered during @x41sec's source code audit. It allows to use the API without providing the configured `VLLM_API_KEY` or `--api-key`. ### Details In https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/v0.14.0/vllm/entrypoints/openai/api_server.py#L689-L692 the `url_path` is taken from the `URL`, which is reconstructed by _starlette_ based on the request `scope`. ```py from starlette.datastructures import URL, Headers, Mutabl

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recordType
vulnerability
status
active
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Evidence & attribution

First collected: 2026-09-20T22:31:48.298Z. This is not the publication date.