CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-94623
8.7 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-09-21
- Last modified
- 2026-09-29
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.7 HIGH — 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/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])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-617
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• vllm vllm (<= 0.29.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness
References
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm Product
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/v0.29.0/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl/base_worker.py#L2642-L2646 Product
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/51505 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-through-0.29.0-denial-of-service-via-nixl-multi-prompt-assertion-failure Third Party Advisory