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Medium osv · PYSEC-2026-3996

PYSEC-2026-3996

Published Sep 17, 2026 CVSS 4.0

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.

Affected AI Products

vllm
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