Medium severity · published Sep 26, 2026
CVE-2026-100654
vLLM before 0.29.0 Denial of Service via out-of-range stop_token_ids
6.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
vLLM before 0.29.0 accepts user-controlled stop_token_ids on the OpenAI-compatible POST /v1/completions and POST /v1/chat/completions endpoints but validates only that the values are integers, not that each token id is within the model vocabulary/logits range. When min_tokens > 0, the stop token ids are used as logits indices to suppress stop tokens, so an out-of-range id reaches a CUDA indexing operation (index_put_) and triggers a device-side assertion. An authenticated API user can send a single malformed completion request that returns 500 Internal Server Error and puts EngineCore into a fatal state, causing subsequent requests to fail until the service is restarted (denial of service).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 24% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VL
vllm · vllm-project
before 0.29.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-100654
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-100654
vendor-advisory
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-v5gm-qgmv-gc6c
third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-before-0.29.0-denial-of-service-via-out-of-range-stop-token-ids
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