GHSA-9pcc-gvx5-r5wm · Severity: high · Ecosystem: pip — Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in vLLM Multi-Node Cluster Configuration
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models. In a multi-node vLLM deployment using the V0 engine, vLLM uses ZeroMQ for some multi-node communication purposes. The secondary vLLM hosts open a `SUB` ZeroMQ socket and connect to an `XPUB` socket on the primary vLLM host. When data is received on this `SUB` socket, it is deserialized with `pickle`. This is unsafe, as it can be abused to execute code on a remote machine. Since the vulnerability exists in a client that connects to the primary vLLM host, this vulnerability serves as an escalation point. If the primary vLLM host is compromised, this vulnerability could be used to compromise the rest of the hosts in the vLLM deployment. Attackers could also use other means to exploit the vulnerability without requiring access to the primary vLLM host. One example would be the use of ARP cache poisoning to redirect traffic to a malicious endpoint used to deliver a payload with arbitrary code to execute on the target machine. Note that this issue only affects the V0 engine, which has been off by default since v0.8.0. Further, the issue only applies to a deployment using tensor parallelism across multiple hosts, which we do not expect to be a common deployment pattern. Since V0 is has been off by default since v0.8.0 and the fix is fairly invasive, the maintainers of vLLM have decided not to fix this issue. Instead, the maintainers recommend that users ensure their environment is on a secure network in case this pattern is in use. The V1 engine is not affected by this issue.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-30165 is rated Moderate Risk (45.6/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.48%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
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| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.13% | 0.48% | +0.35% |
| 2 | 2026-06-14 | 0.43% | 0.13% | -0.30% |
| 3 | 2026-05-22 | — | 0.43% | — |
Full EPSS history (22 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
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| 8.0 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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2.1 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
GHSA-9pcc-gvx5-r5wm · Severity: high · Ecosystem: pip — Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in vLLM Multi-Node Cluster Configuration
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
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redhat
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high | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-30165 |