Medium severity · published Oct 25, 2026
CVE-2026-116174
vLLM 0.22.0 before 0.24.0 Denial of Service via Rust gRPC Generate
New
5.9
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
vLLM from 0.22.0 before 0.24.0 contains an improper input validation vulnerability in the Rust gRPC Generate and GenerateStream service that forwards unchecked prompt token IDs to EngineCore. Attackers can submit requests with out-of-vocabulary prompt.token_ids values to trigger a fatal embedding lookup failure that terminates EngineCore and leaves the server unhealthy.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 19% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VL
vllm · vllm-project
0.22.0 before 0.24.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116174
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116174
github.com
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-w2v2-5662-8v5q
www.vulncheck.com
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-0.22.0-before-0.24.0-denial-of-service-via-rust-grpc-generate
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