CVE-2026-94623
⚠️ highSummary
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.
CVSS Score
7.5
High
EPSS Score
0.5
Exploit Probability
Published Date
2026-09-21
First Seen: 2026-09-24
📊 Relative Risk Intelligence
This CVE is Moderate Risk - more severe than 67.7% of all 361,609 vulnerabilities in our database.
#116,654
Above average severity
Severity Percentile
🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Sep 22, 2026
🔍 Exploitation Status
None
No known exploits
⚙️ Automatable
YES
Can be exploited automatically
💥 Technical Impact
Partial
Limited system impact
🏆 Discovered By
Mingkai Yu
Jiapeng Li
Jiajia Liu
SSVC data provided by
CISA
Last Modified
2026-09-22
Source
NVD 🔗
CVSS Vector 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Vector 4.0
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
CWE IDs (Weakness Types)