CVE-2026-94623 PUBLISHED

vLLM through 0.29.0 Denial of Service via NIXL Multi-Prompt Assertion Failure

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 21.09.2026 Published: 21.09.2026 Updated: 21.09.2026

vLLM through 0.29.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the NIXL connector's prefix caching implementation that fails to properly validate block counts across multi-prompt completion requests in prefill/decode disaggregated deployments. Attackers can trigger an assertion failure in NixlBaseConnectorWorker._apply_prefix_caching by submitting completion requests with multiple prompts of varying lengths, causing the decode worker to terminate and become unavailable until restarted.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor vllm-project
Product vllm
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.29.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • Mingkai Yu finder
  • Jiapeng Li finder
  • Jiajia Liu finder

References

Problem Types

  • Reachable Assertion CWE