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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-116178 EUVD-2026-109439GHSA-34qw-q2h2-jp3mGHSA-w9hx-wr9v-56wvPYSEC-2026-4353

vLLM 0.20.0 before 0.30.0 DoS via /inference/v1/generate mm_placeholders

Published Oct 25, 2026 · Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

vLLM from 0.20.0 before 0.30.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows remote attackers to crash the engine by sending inconsistent multimodal metadata to the disaggregated /inference/v1/generate endpoint. Attackers can replay a valid multimodal item with repeated or overlapping mm_placeholders ranges or mismatched kwargs_data and mm_hashes lists, producing a negative text span in Qwen2.5-VL position construction that terminates the engine.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
vllm-project vllm 0.20.0 – < 0.30.0 0.30.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI vllm >= 0.20.0, < 0.30.0 0.30.0 PYSEC-2026-4353

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