PYSEC-2026-3996

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Import Source
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/vllm/PYSEC-2026-3996.yaml
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/PYSEC-2026-3996
Aliases
Published
2026-09-17T23:18:54Z
Modified
2026-09-29T09:00:02Z
Severity
  • 8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - 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 CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

vLLM through 0.29.0 fails to properly clean up decode-side metadata for rejected inference requests in prefill/decode disaggregated deployments. Remote attackers can submit requests with max_tokens=0 to exhaust decode-worker memory without bound until the worker restarts.

References

Affected packages

PyPI / vllm

Package

Name
vllm
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Purl
pkg:pypi/vllm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.30.0

Affected versions

0.*
0.0.1
0.1.0
0.1.1
0.1.2
0.1.3
0.1.4
0.1.5
0.1.6
0.1.7
0.2.0
0.2.1
0.2.1.post1
0.2.2
0.2.3
0.2.4
0.2.5
0.2.6
0.2.7
0.3.0
0.3.1
0.3.2
0.3.3
0.4.0
0.4.0.post1
0.4.1
0.4.2
0.4.3
0.5.0
0.5.0.post1
0.5.1
0.5.2
0.5.3
0.5.3.post1
0.5.4
0.5.5
0.6.0
0.6.1
0.6.1.post1
0.6.1.post2
0.6.2
0.6.3
0.6.3.post1
0.6.4
0.6.4.post1
0.6.5
0.6.6
0.6.6.post1
0.7.0
0.7.1
0.7.2
0.7.3
0.8.0
0.8.1
0.8.2
0.8.3
0.8.4
0.8.5
0.8.5.post1
0.9.0
0.9.0.1
0.9.1
0.9.2
0.10.0
0.10.1
0.10.1.1
0.10.2
0.11.0
0.11.1
0.11.2
0.12.0
0.13.0
0.14.0
0.14.1
0.15.0
0.15.1
0.16.0
0.17.0
0.17.1
0.18.0
0.18.1
0.19.0
0.19.1
0.20.0
0.20.1
0.20.2
0.21.0
0.22.0
0.22.1
0.23.0
0.24.0
0.25.0
0.25.1
0.26.0
0.27.0
0.27.1
0.28.0
0.29.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/vllm/PYSEC-2026-3996.yaml"