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CVE-2024-8939
Summary

A vulnerability was found in the ilab model serve component, where improper handling of the best_of parameter in the vllm JSON web API can lead to a Denial of Service (DoS). The API used for LLM-based sentence or chat completion accepts a best_of parameter to return the best completion from several options. When this parameter is set to a large value, the API does not handle timeouts or resource exhaustion properly, allowing an attacker to cause a DoS by consuming excessive system resources. This leads to the API becoming unresponsive, preventing legitimate users from accessing the service.

Publication Date Sept. 18, 2024, 2:15 a.m.
Registration Date Sept. 18, 2024, 5 a.m.
Last Update Sept. 20, 2024, 9:30 p.m.
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