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NVD HIGH: CVE-2026-116174 — vLLM from 0.22.0 before 0.24.0 contains an improper input validation vulnerabili...

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Executive Summary

vLLM from 0.22.0 before 0.24.0 contains an improper input validation vulnerability in the Rust gRPC Generate and GenerateStream service that forwards unchecked prompt token IDs to EngineCore. Attackers can submit requests with out-of-vocabulary prompt.token_ids values to trigger a fatal embedding lookup failure that terminates EngineCore and leaves the server unhealthy.

Analysis

vLLM from 0.22.0 before 0.24.0 contains an improper input validation vulnerability in the Rust gRPC Generate and GenerateStream service that forwards unchecked prompt token IDs to EngineCore. Attackers can submit requests with out-of-vocabulary prompt.token_ids values to trigger a fatal embedding lookup failure that terminates EngineCore and leaves the server unhealthy. CVSS Score: 5.9. Published: 2026-10-25T14:16:56.877.

Indicators of Compromise (1)

CVE (1)
CVE-2026-116174
Source Attribution

Originally published by NIST NVD on Oct 25, 2026. Verified by: NIST.

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