CVE-2026-116174

Affects: vLLM

CVSS: MEDIUM · 5.9v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published: 2026-10-25
Weakness: CWE-20
Source: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116174

Description

vLLM from 0.22.0 before 0.24.0 contains an improper input validation vulnerability in the Rust gRPC Generate and GenerateStream service that forwards unchecked prompt token IDs to EngineCore. Attackers can submit requests with out-of-vocabulary prompt.token_ids values to trigger a fatal embedding lookup failure that terminates EngineCore and leaves the server unhealthy.

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