High severity · published Oct 25, 2026
CVE-2026-116178
vLLM 0.20.0 before 0.30.0 DoS via /inference/v1/generate mm_placeholders
New
7.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
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 25% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VL
vllm · vllm-project
0.20.0 before 0.30.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116178
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116178
github.com
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-34qw-q2h2-jp3m
www.vulncheck.com
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-0.20.0-before-0.30.0-dos-via-inference-v1-generate-mm-placeholders
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