CVE-2024-11041: vLLM Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability

# CVE-2024-11041: vLLM Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/cve-2024-11041-vllm-deserialization-of-untrusted-data-vulner · AIR-2025-0245 · closed 2025-03-20

- Lane: Patch now
- Severity: 2 (Disclosed vulnerability)
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2025-03-20
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: vLLM
- CVE ids: CVE-2024-11041
- CVSS: 9.8

## Summary

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in vLLM via the MessageQueue.dequeue() function using insecure pickle loading. An attacker can send a malicious payload to execute arbitrary code on the victim machine.

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2025-03-20: CVE-2024-11041: vllm-project vllm version v0.6.2 contains a vulnerability in the MessageQueue.dequeue() API function. (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11041)
- 2025-03-20: CVE-2024-11041: vLLM Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5vqr-wprc-cpp7)

## Sources

- 2025-03-20 GitHub Advisory Database: CVE-2024-11041: vLLM Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5vqr-wprc-cpp7
- 2025-03-20 NVD: CVE-2024-11041: vllm-project vllm version v0.6.2 contains a vulnerability in the MessageQueue.dequeue() API function. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11041

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