CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-56340
8.7 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-06-20
- Last modified
- 2026-10-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.7 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20, CWE-787
Description
vLLM versions >= 0.10.2 and < 0.13.0 are missing sparse tensor validation in multimodal embeddings processing. Because PyTorch disables sparse tensor invariant checks by default, an attacker can submit crafted embedding requests with malformed (negative or out-of-bounds) tensor indices, when the prompt-embeds feature is enabled, to trigger crashes or resource exhaustion (denial of service), with potential for out-of-bounds/write-what-where memory corruption. This continues CVE-2025-62164, whose prior fix only disabled the feature by default rather than addressing the root cause.
Affected configurations
• vllm vllm (>= 0.10.2 < 0.13.0)
Related
References
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-mcmc-2m55-j8jj Vendor Advisory
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-denial-of-service-via-unvalidated-multimodal-embeddings Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-56340 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2491060 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-56340.json security.access.redhat.com