{"id":86270,"date":"2026-01-12T23:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:30:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"cve-2025-30202-vllm-denial-of-service-and-data-exposure-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-30202-vllm-denial-of-service-and-data-exposure-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-30202: vLLM Denial of Service and Data Exposure Vulnerability<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

CVE-2025-30202 is a critical vulnerability affecting vLLM, a high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine. It exposes the system to potential denial of service (DoS) attacks and data leakage via ZeroMQ in multi-node vLLM deployment. This vulnerability poses a significant threat to all entities utilizing vLLM versions from 0.5.2 and prior to 0.8.5. It is noteworthy due to its potential to compromise system integrity and confidentiality.<\/p>\n

Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

CVE ID: CVE-2025-30202
\nSeverity: High (7.5)
\nAttack Vector: Network
\nPrivileges Required: None
\nUser Interaction: None
\nImpact: Potential system compromise and data leakage<\/p>\n

Affected Products<\/strong><\/p>\n

Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n

vLLM | 0.5.2 to 0.8.4<\/p>\n

How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a multi-node vLLM deployment, vLLM makes use of ZeroMQ for certain multi-node communication functions. The primary vLLM host opens an XPUB ZeroMQ socket and binds it to all interfaces. While the socket is typically opened for a multi-node deployment, it is only utilized when conducting tensor parallelism across multiple hosts.
\nAny client with network access to this host can connect to this XPUB socket unless its port is blocked by a firewall. Once connected, these arbitrary clients will receive all of the same data broadcasted to all of the secondary vLLM hosts. This data is internal vLLM state information that is not useful to an attacker. However, by potentially connecting to this socket many times and not reading the data published to them, an attacker can cause a DoS attack by slowing down or potentially blocking the publisher.<\/p>\n

Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following conceptual code represents how an attacker might continuously connect to the XPUB socket without reading the data, leading to potential DoS:<\/p>\n

import zmq\ncontext = zmq.Context()\nsocket = context.socket(zmq.SUB)\nsocket.connect(\"tcp:\/\/target_host:target_port\")\nwhile True:\n# Continuously connect without reading the data\nsocket.recv_string(flags=zmq.NOBLOCK)<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Overview CVE-2025-30202 is a critical vulnerability affecting vLLM, a high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine. It exposes the system to potential denial of service (DoS) attacks and data leakage via ZeroMQ in multi-node vLLM deployment. This vulnerability poses a significant threat to all entities utilizing vLLM versions from 0.5.2 and prior to 0.8.5. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-86270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t