GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-389x-67px-mjg3 xgrammar Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) by abusing unbounded cache in memory

MEDIUM Published 2025-04-09 Modified 2026-06-08 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-32381
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
xgrammar
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-770
Reviewed
2025-04-09

Affected packages

• PyPI xgrammar: < 0.1.18 → fixed in 0.1.18

Description

Summary Xgrammar includes a cache for compiled grammars to increase performance with repeated use of the same grammar. This cache is held in memory. Since the cache is unbounded, a system making use of xgrammar can be abused to fill up a host's memory and case a denial of service. For example, sending many small requests to an LLM inference server with unique JSON schemas would eventually cause this denial of service to occur. Details The fix is to add a limit to the cache size. This was done in https://github.com/mlc-ai/xgrammar/pull/243 An example of making use of the new cache size limit can be found in vLLM here: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/16283 Impact Any system making use of Xgrammar and taking requests as input from potentially untrusted parties would be vulnerable to this denial of service issue.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-32381 XGrammar is an open-source library for efficient, flexible, and portable structured generation. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References