CVE-2026-44222 (GCVE-0-2026-44222)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-12 19:57 – Updated: 2026-05-13 12:24
VLAI
Title
vLLM: Remote DoS via Special-Token Placeholders
Summary
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.6.1 to before 0.20.0, there is a a Token Injection vulnerability in vLLM’s multimodal processing. Unauthenticated, text-only prompts that spell special tokens are interpreted as control. Image and video placeholder sequences supplied without matching data cause vLLM to index into empty grids during input-position computation, raising an unhandled IndexError and terminating the worker or degrading availability. Multimodal paths that rely on image_grid_thw/video_grid_thw are affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.20.0.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-13 12:24 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-129 - Improper Validation of Array Index
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
vllm-project vllm Affected: >= 0.6.1, < 0.20.0
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