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 incom...

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Severity and exploitation

• CISA KEV Not listed.
• EPSS 0.0063, the 50th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC First seen by agentprime
2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

• OSV: PYSEC-2026-4004
• github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/v0.29.0/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl/metadata.py#L294-L312
• www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-through-0.29.0-denial-of-service-via-incomplete-nixl-kv-transfer-metadata
• github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/54807
• github.com/vllm-project/vllm

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.