CVE-2026-54234 PUBLISHED

vLLM: Remote DoS in vLLM via Invalid Recovered Token Reinjection

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 12.06.2026 Published: 06.07.2026 Updated: 07.07.2026

vLLM is a high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs. Prior to 0.24.0, a frontend-legal multi-request speculative decoding workload can cause the rejection sampler to produce a recovered token equal to the model vocabulary size boundary value, which is then converted to negative one when the engine selects the next live token for a request and is written back into the drafter's input ids; that out-of-vocabulary value is later consumed by the model's embedding and attention path and crashes the engine worker with a GPU device-side assertion. The same triggering request sequence is reachable through the public gRPC Generate and Abort endpoints, so a remote client that can send generation requests can crash the shared engine worker, aborting concurrent requests and causing a service-wide denial of service for other clients of the deployment until the worker is restarted. This issue is fixed in version 0.24.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor vllm-project
Product vllm
Versions
  • Version < 0.24.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation CWE
  • CWE-1284: Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input CWE