Medium severity · published Oct 26, 2026
CVE-2026-115916
vLLM: Out-of-vocabulary prompt token id passes input validation and triggers a CUDA device-side assert (engine crash / DoS)
New
6.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models. Prior to 0.32.0, vllm/tokenizers/hf.py computes max_token_id with an off-by-one upper bound, allowing a pre-tokenized prompt ID equal to the vocabulary size to pass validation. For a tensor-parallel size of one and an exact multiple-of-64 vocabulary, VocabParallelEmbedding.forward does not mask that value before F.embedding uses it, causing a CUDA device-side assertion and terminating the engine. This issue is fixed in version 0.32.0.
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 23% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VL
vllm · vllm-project
< 0.32.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115916
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-115916
github.com
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/37cecc8141e2dcba9dd534897a164d4baaf27229
github.com
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/59491
github.com
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/releases/tag/v0.32.0
github.com
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-q97c-p368-75c4
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