CVE-2026-54234

vLLM is a high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs. Prior to 0.24.0, a frontend-legal multi-request speculative decoding workload can cause the rejection sampler to produce a recovered token equal to the model vocabulary size boundary value, which is then converted to negative one when the engine selects the next live token for a request and is written back into the drafter's input ids; that out-of-vocabulary value is later consumed by the model's embedding and attention path and crashes the engine worker with a GPU device-side assertion. The same triggering request sequence is reachable through the public gRPC Generate and Abort endpoints, so a remote client that can send generation requests can crash the shared engine worker, aborting concurrent requests and causing a service-wide denial of service for other clients of the deployment until the worker is restarted. This issue is fixed in version 0.24.0.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

07 Jul 2026, 19:04

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First Time Vllm
Vllm vllm
CPE cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References () https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/8a5cf1ccd65e8ac7635c402c1ec0b08988bc26ca - () https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/8a5cf1ccd65e8ac7635c402c1ec0b08988bc26ca - Patch
References () https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/44744 - () https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/44744 - Issue Tracking, Patch
References () https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-8wr5-jm2h-8r4f - () https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-8wr5-jm2h-8r4f - Vendor Advisory, Exploit

07 Jul 2026, 15:16

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References () https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-8wr5-jm2h-8r4f - () https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-8wr5-jm2h-8r4f -

06 Jul 2026, 21:16

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-07-06 21:16

Updated : 2026-07-07 19:04


NVD link : CVE-2026-54234

Mitre link : CVE-2026-54234

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-54234


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Products Affected

vllm

  • vllm
CWE
CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

CWE-1284

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input