CVE-2026-116181

high

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.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-0.20.1-before-0.29.0-dos-and-gpu-out-of-bounds-write-via-stop-token-ids

https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-w9r6-29q4-pvpr

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-109442

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-25

Updated: 2026-10-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High