vLLMPYSEC-2026-3997
vLLM: unauthenticated attacker could crash the engine
UnratedCVE-2026-93592 · Published Sep 18, 2026 · updated Sep 29, 2026
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.
Affected versions
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| vllm PyPI | < 0.28.0 | 0.28.0 |
Details and references
- CVSS 4.0
- 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Severity from
- no source yet
- Also known as
- CVE-2026-93592, GHSA-25q3-v2hm-8vpf
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