Bug 2492122

Summary: CVE-2026-48746 python-starlette: vLLM: Critical authentication bypass allows unauthorized API access [epel-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component: python-starletteAssignee: Ben Beasley <code>
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Version: epel10CC: code, paul.wouters, rominf
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Description Avinash Hanwate 2026-06-24 08:19:52 UTC
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Comment 1 Ben Beasley 2026-06-24 09:27:05 UTC
Looking at https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-94f4-hr76-p5j6, this appears to be a bug in how the vllm software uses Starlette. There is no documented bug in Starlette, no proposed fix in Starlette, and vllm itself is not even packaged in either Fedora or EPEL.