Critical

vLLM Allows Remote Code Execution via Mooncake Integration

  • Disclosed: 19.03.2025
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 14:19

Summary

When vLLM is configured to use Mooncake, unsafe deserialization exposed directly over ZMQ/TCP will allow attackers to execute remote code on distributed hosts.

Details

  1. Pickle deserialization vulnerabilities are well documented.
  2. The mooncake pipe is exposed over the network (by design to enable disaggregated prefilling across distributed environments) using ZMQ over TCP, greatly increasing exploitability. Further, the mooncake integration opens these sockets listening on all interfaces on the host, meaning it can not be configured to only use a private, trusted network.

Only sender_socket and receiver_ack are allowed to be accessed publicly, while the data actually decompressed by pickle.loads() comes from recv_bytes. Its interface is defined as self.receiver_socket.connect(f\"tcp://{d_host}:{d_rank_offset + 1}\"), where d_host is decode_host, a locally defined address 192.168.0.139,from mooncake.json (https://github.com/kvcache-ai/Mooncake/blob/main/doc/en/vllm-integration-v0.2.md?plain=1#L36).

  1. The root problem is recv_tensor() calls _recv_impl which passes the raw network bytes to pickle.loads(). Additionally, it does not appear that there are any controls (network, authentication, etc) to prevent arbitrary users from sending this payload to the affected service.

Impact

This is a remote code execution vulnerability impacting any deployments using Mooncake to distribute KV across distributed hosts.

Remediation

This issue is resolved by https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/14228

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) vllm >= 0.6.5, < 0.8.0 0.8.0

References

CVSS score 9/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-502
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
vllm
Disclosed
19.03.2025
Updated
11.10.2026 14:19

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2025-63 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-x3m8-f7g5-qhm7 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: vllm

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (94) in the archive
Total entries
94
First → latest
09.2024 10.2026
Without a fix
5
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 9
  • High 23
  • Medium 47
  • Low 4
  • Unrated 11

Disclosures per year

  1. 2024: 2
  2. 2025: 30
  3. 2026: 62
Severity:
  1. High · 7.5 CVE-2026-54234 >= 0.17.1, < 0.24.0 0.24.0
  2. High CVE-2026-55514 >= 0.12.0, < 0.24.0 0.24.0
  3. Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-48746 >= 0.3.0, < 0.22.0 0.22.0
  4. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2026-22778 >= 0.8.3, < 0.14.1 0.14.1
  5. High · 8.8 CVE-2026-22807 >= 0.10.1, < 0.14.0 0.14.0
  6. High · 8.8 CVE-2026-56340 >= 0.10.2, < 0.13.0 0.13.0
  7. High · 6.5 CVE-2025-62372 >= 0.5.5, < 0.11.1 0.11.1
  8. High · 8.8 CVE-2025-62164 >= 0.10.2, < 0.11.1 0.11.1
  9. High · 7.5 CVE-2025-59425 < 0.11.0 0.11.0
  10. High · 8.8 CVE-2025-9141 >= 0.10.0, < 0.10.1.1 0.10.1.1
  11. High · 7.5 CVE-2025-48956 >= 0.1.0, < 0.10.1.1 0.10.1.1
  12. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2025-47277 >= 0.6.5, < 0.8.5 0.8.5
  13. High · 8.0 CVE-2025-30165 >= 0.5.2, < 0.10.0 0.10.0
  14. Critical · 10.0 CVE-2025-32444 >= 0.6.5, < 0.8.5 0.8.5
  15. High · 7.5 CVE-2025-30202 >= 0.5.2, < 0.8.5 0.8.5
  16. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2024-11041 <= 0.6.2 no fix
  17. vLLM Allows Remote Code Execution via Mooncake Integration this entry
    Critical · 9.0 CVE-2025-29783 >= 0.6.5, < 0.8.0 0.8.0
  18. High · 7.5 CVE-2024-8768 < 0.5.5 0.5.5

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