CVE-2024-8768 (GCVE-0-2024-8768)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-17 16:20
Modified
2024-12-24 03:24
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
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