CVE-2026-116181 (GCVE-0-2026-116181)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-25 13:20
Modified
2026-10-25 13:20
CWE
  • CWE-129 - Improper Validation of Array Index
Summary
vLLM from 0.20.1 before 0.29.0 contains an improper input validation vulnerability that allows remote attackers to crash the engine by supplying out-of-vocabulary stop_token_ids. Attackers can send OpenAI chat, completion, generate, or batch requests with invalid IDs to terminate the engine or write outside the V2 runner's logits buffer.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vllm-project vllm Version: 0.20.1   ≤
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