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SCA: security update for vllm (GHSA-hpv8-x276-m59f)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 441184

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.6.1 to before 0.20.0,
 there is a a Token Injection vulnerability in vLLM’s multimodal processing. Unauthenticated, text-only
 prompts that spell special tokens are interpreted as control. Image and video placeholder sequences
 supplied without matching data cause vLLM to index into empty grids during input-position computation,
 raising an unhandled IndexError and terminating the worker or degrading availability. Multimodal paths
 that rely on image_grid_thw/video_grid_thw are affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.20.0.
 (CVE-2026-44222)

Solution

Update the vllm library and its related packages to version 0.20.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hpv8-x276-m59f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 441184

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/6/2026

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-44222

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-44222

cwe: CWE-129