Medium severity · published Jun 22, 2026
CVE-2026-54235
vLLM: temperature=NaN and temperature=Infinity bypass validation and propagate to GPU kernels
6.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). Prior to 0.23.1rc0, ll temperature validation gates use comparison operators (<, >), which silently evaluate to False for NaN and for positive Infinity in Python's IEEE 754 float semantics. Both values pass every guard and propagate to GPU sampling kernels, where they produce undefined behavior or CUDA errors that can crash the inference worker. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.23.1rc0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 39% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VL
vllm · vllm-project
< 0.23.1rc0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54235
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54235
Patch
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/d598d239737cfa37bcfcb98886ec3f3557fc7198
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/45116
Exploit
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-7h4p-rffg-7823
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