CVE-2024-8768 (GCVE-0-2024-8768)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-17 16:20
Modified
2025-11-20 07:34
CWE
Summary
A flaw was found in the vLLM library. A completions API request with an empty prompt will crash the vLLM API server, resulting in a denial of service.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Version: 0   < 0.5.5
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