Bug 2541835 (CVE-2026-100651) - CVE-2026-100651 vllm: vLLM: Denial of Service via overlong multimodal inference requests
Summary: CVE-2026-100651 vllm: vLLM: Denial of Service via overlong multimodal inferen...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-100651
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-26 13:33 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-27 13:39 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-26 13:33:50 UTC
vLLM before 0.29.0 fails to enforce decoder prompt-length validation on the disaggregated serving endpoint /inference/v1/generate. When the request contains a 'features' (multimodal) payload, vllm/entrypoints/serve/disagg/serving.py builds a multimodal EngineInput directly from the caller-supplied token_ids, and GenerateRequest.token_ids (vllm/entrypoints/serve/disagg/protocol.py) is not checked against model_config.max_model_len. For multimodal processors that report skip_prompt_length_check=True (for example Nemotron Parse, Whisper, and FireRedLID), InputProcessor._validate_prompt_len() returns immediately for both encoder and decoder prompts, so an overlong prompt becomes an EngineCoreRequest and reaches the worker input-batch copy into a fixed max_model_len-wide NumPy row. A client able to reach the endpoint on an affected model configuration can therefore submit an overlong token_ids list to trigger a worker failure and denial of service. Fixed in 0.29.0.


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