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Advisory details: pypa / vllm/PYSEC-2026-3997
Advisory ID pypa/vllm/PYSEC-2026-3997
Aliases CVE-2026-93592
GHSA-25q3-v2hm-8vpf
PYSEC-2026-3997
Summary vLLM versions before 0.28.0 fail to validate the lower bound of token IDs in the /v1/embeddings and /pooling endpoints, allowing unauthenticated attackers to crash the engine by submitting negative token IDs. A single request with a negative token ID triggers a CUDA device-side assertion that poisons the GPU context, causing all subsequent requests to fail until the process restarts.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.8
Risk 3.9
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
cvssv4 8.7 https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/vllm/PYSEC-2026-3997.yaml
Reference id Reference type URL
GHSA-25q3-v2hm-8vpf Advisory https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-25q3-v2hm-8vpf
vllm-before-0.28.0-denial-of-service-via-negative-token-id Advisory https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-before-0.28.0-denial-of-service-via-negative-token-id
No exploits are available.

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Patch URL
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Vector: 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 Found at https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/vllm/PYSEC-2026-3997.yaml
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