Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-93592

vllm-project vLLM

vLLM before 0.28.0 Denial of Service via negative token ID

CVSS 4.0
8.7High

Official description

vLLM versions before 0.28.0 fail to validate the lower bound of token IDs in the /v1/embeddings and /pooling endpoints, allowing unauthenticated attackers to crash the engine by submitting negative token IDs. A single request with a negative token ID triggers a CUDA device-side assertion that poisons the GPU context, causing all subsequent requests to fail until the process restarts.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
8.7High 4.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (VulnCheck) CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.5High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (VulnCheck) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
vllm-project vLLM v < 0.28.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

2
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Details

Published
2026-09-18
Last updated
2026-09-18
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
VulnCheck

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.54%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
45.8%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
Proof of concept
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-129
    Improper Validation of Array Index