CVE-2026-55574CWE-1333

vLLM: ReDoS via structured_outputs.regex compiled without timeout in xgrammar and outlines backends

High · published July 6, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
47.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

vLLM is a high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs. Prior to 0.24.0, the structured_outputs.regex API parameter passes a user-supplied regular expression string directly to the grammar compiler backends with no compilation timeout; in the xgrammar backend the string reaches the regex compiler with no guard, and in the outlines backend the validation step blocks structural issues such as lookarounds and backreferences but performs no complexity analysis, so a pattern with nested quantifiers passes all checks and causes exponential state-space expansion, allowing a single request containing an adversarial regex to hang an inference worker indefinitely and deny service. This issue is fixed in version 0.24.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00583 · 47.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Published
2026-07-06T20:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 JUL 20:05Z
    vLLM: ReDoS via structured_outputs.regex compiled without timeout in xgrammar and outlines backends
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