CVE-2026-94622
highvLLM versions through 0.29.0 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the NIXL connector's metadata handling for prefill/decode disaggregated deployments.
Vendor / product: Vllm — vllm
vLLM versions through 0.29.0 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the NIXL connector's metadata handling for prefill/decode disaggregated deployments. Attackers can send requests with incomplete kv_transfer_params dictionary entries to trigger an uncaught KeyError in EngineCore scheduling, causing the decode engine to terminate and making all routed requests fail until manual restart.
CVSS
7.5
7.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (disclosure@vulncheck.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-21 22:17
Modified: 2026-09-29 12:47
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 2 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:54 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
vllm / vllm ≤0.29.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/54807
References
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/v0.29.0/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connecto... disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/54807 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-through-0.29.0-denial-of-service-via-incomplete-... disclosure@vulncheck.com
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:54 UTC · record ↗