cve-2025-46570
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-29 16:32
Modified
2025-05-29 18:05
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
vLLM’s Chunk-Based Prefix Caching Vulnerable to Potential Timing Side-Channel
References
Impacted products
▼ | Vendor | Product |
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vllm-project | vllm |
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