CVE-2026-93436
CVE-2026-93436 · vLLM through 0.29.0 Memory Exhaustion via Rejected Requests
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vLLM through 0.29.0 fails to properly clean up decode-side metadata for rejected inference requests in prefill/decode disaggregated deployments. Remote attackers can submit requests with max_tokens=0 to exhaust decode-worker memory without bound until the worker restarts.
CVSS 8.7 · High · EPSS 0.8% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: python
Affected products and versions
vllm
- Versions
- ≥ 0, ≤ 0.29.0: Affected (semver)
No fix published
vllm PyPI
- Versions
- 0.0.1
- 0.1.0
- 0.1.1
- 0.1.2
- 0.1.3
- 0.1.4
- 0.1.5
- 0.1.6
- 0.1.7
- 0.10.0
- 0.10.1
- 0.10.1.1
- 0.10.2
- 0.11.0
- 0.11.1
- 0.11.2
- 0.12.0
- 0.13.0
- 0.14.0
- 0.14.1
- 0.15.0
- 0.15.1
- 0.16.0
- 0.17.0
- 0.17.1
- 0.18.0
- 0.18.1
- 0.19.0
- 0.19.1
- 0.2.0
- 0.2.1
- 0.2.1.post1
- 0.2.2
- 0.2.3
- 0.2.4
- 0.2.5
- 0.2.6
- 0.2.7
- 0.20.0
- 0.20.1
- 0.20.2
- 0.21.0
- 0.22.0
- 0.22.1
- 0.23.0
- 0.24.0
- 0.25.0
- 0.25.1
- 0.26.0
- 0.27.0
- 0.27.1
- 0.28.0
- 0.29.0
- 0.3.0
- 0.3.1
- 0.3.2
- 0.3.3
- 0.4.0
- 0.4.0.post1
- 0.4.1
- 0.4.2
- 0.4.3
- 0.5.0
- 0.5.0.post1
- 0.5.1
- 0.5.2
- 0.5.3
- 0.5.3.post1
- 0.5.4
- 0.5.5
- 0.6.0
- 0.6.1
- 0.6.1.post1
- 0.6.1.post2
- 0.6.2
- 0.6.3
- 0.6.3.post1
- 0.6.4
- 0.6.4.post1
- 0.6.5
- 0.6.6
- 0.6.6.post1
- 0.7.0
- 0.7.1
- 0.7.2
- 0.7.3
- 0.8.0
- 0.8.1
- 0.8.2
- 0.8.3
- 0.8.4
- 0.8.5
- 0.8.5.post1
- 0.9.0
- 0.9.0.1
- 0.9.1
- 0.9.2
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 0.30.0
Update to 0.30.0
Original sources
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/55677
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/v0.29.0/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl/push_worker.py#L162-L181
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-through-0.29.0-memory-exhaustion-via-rejected-requests
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-93436