Bug 2538478 (CVE-2026-93592)

Summary: CVE-2026-93592 vllm: vLLM: Denial of Service via negative token ID input
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Version: unspecifiedCC: alinfoot, bbrownin, dtrifiro, weaton
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A flaw was found in vLLM. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit an input validation vulnerability by submitting negative token IDs to the /v1/embeddings and /pooling endpoints. This action triggers a CUDA device-side assertion, which poisons the GPU context and causes the engine to crash. Consequently, all subsequent requests will fail until the process is restarted, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-22 18:39:51 UTC
vLLM versions before 0.28.0 fail to validate the lower bound of token IDs in the /v1/embeddings and /pooling endpoints, allowing unauthenticated attackers to crash the engine by submitting negative token IDs. A single request with a negative token ID triggers a CUDA device-side assertion that poisons the GPU context, causing all subsequent requests to fail until the process restarts.