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High nvd · CVE-2026-94623

CVE-2026-94623: vLLM through 0.29.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the NIXL connector's prefix caching implementation tha

Published Sep 21, 2026 CVSS 8.7

vLLM through 0.29.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the NIXL connector's prefix caching implementation that fails to properly validate block counts across multi-prompt completion requests in prefill/decode disaggregated deployments. Attackers can trigger an assertion failure in NixlBaseConnectorWorker._apply_prefix_caching by submitting completion requests with multiple prompts of varying lengths, causing the decode worker to terminate and become unavailable until restarted.

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