CVSS 4.0
8.7 highCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCVE-2026-94622
High (8.7) in vllm vllm. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in vllm 0.30.0.
vLLM versions through 0.29.0 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the NIXL connector's metadata handling for prefill/decode disaggregated deployments. Attackers can send requests with incomplete kv_transfer_params dictionary entries to trigger an uncaught KeyError in EngineCore scheduling, causing the decode engine to terminate and making all routed requests fail until manual restart.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 50% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-248
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- vllm:vllm
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PYSEC-2026-4004 | PyPI | vllm | <0.30.0 | 0.30.0 |
References
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/v0.29.0/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl/metadata.py#L294-L312
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/54807
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-through-0.29.0-denial-of-service-via-incomplete-nixl-kv-transfer-metadata