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CVE-2026-94622 vLLM versions through 0.29.0 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the NIXL connector's metadata handling for…

Description

vLLM versions through 0.29.0 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the NIXL connector's metadata handling for prefill/decode disaggregated deployments. Attackers can send requests with incomplete kv_transfer_params dictionary entries to trigger an uncaught KeyError in EngineCore scheduling, causing the decode engine to terminate and making all routed requests fail until manual restart.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
vllm 0.29 earliest → 0.29.0 No fix stated
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