CVE-2026-116181

Affects: vLLM

CVSS: MEDIUM · 6.5v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published: 2026-10-25
Weakness: CWE-129
Source: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116181

Description

vLLM from 0.20.1 before 0.29.0 contains an improper input validation vulnerability that allows remote attackers to crash the engine by supplying out-of-vocabulary stop_token_ids. Attackers can send OpenAI chat, completion, generate, or batch requests with invalid IDs to terminate the engine or write outside the V2 runner’s logits buffer.

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