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-2026-94623
High (8.7) in vllm vllm. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in vllm 0.30.0.
vLLM through 0.29.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the NIXL connector's prefix caching implementation that fails to properly validate block counts across multi-prompt completion requests in prefill/decode disaggregated deployments. Attackers can trigger an assertion failure in NixlBaseConnectorWorker._apply_prefix_caching by submitting completion requests with multiple prompts of varying lengths, causing the decode worker to terminate and become unavailable until restarted.
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-617
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- vllm:vllm
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PYSEC-2026-4005 | 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/base_worker.py#L2642-L2646
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/51505
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-through-0.29.0-denial-of-service-via-nixl-multi-prompt-assertion-failure