vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models. Prior to 0.30.0, the Rust frontend's track_http_metrics middleware records the raw HTTP method token as a Prometheus label for requests reaching registered routes. An unauthenticated attacker can send unique arbitrary method tokens to unguarded routes such as /tokenize, causing Prometheus's Family::get_or_create function to permanently create counter and histogram label sets. Those label sets increase process memory usage and enlarge the /metrics response until the service or monitoring path is exhausted. This issue is fixed in version 0.30.0.

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Description vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models. Prior to 0.30.0, the Rust frontend's track_http_metrics middleware records the raw HTTP method token as a Prometheus label for requests reaching registered routes. An unauthenticated attacker can send unique arbitrary method tokens to unguarded routes such as /tokenize, causing Prometheus's Family::get_or_create function to permanently create counter and histogram label sets. Those label sets increase process memory usage and enlarge the /metrics response until the service or monitoring path is exhausted. This issue is fixed in version 0.30.0.
Title vLLM: Unbounded Prometheus label cardinality from attacker-controlled HTTP method tokens in the vLLM Rust frontend metrics middleware (unauthenticated denial of service)
Weaknesses CWE-400
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-05T22:58:01.362Z

Reserved: 2026-10-05T19:11:07.948Z

Link: CVE-2026-105759

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-05T23:17:02.760

Modified: 2026-10-05T23:17:02.760

Link: CVE-2026-105759

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-06T00:30:18Z

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