NIXPKGS-2026-2713
GitHub issue
published 14 hours ago
vLLM through 0.29.0 Denial of Service via Incomplete NIXL KV Transfer Metadata
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CVE-2026-94622
8.7 HIGH
- CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
- Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
- Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
- Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
- Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
- User Interaction (UI): None (N)
- Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
- Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): None (N)
- Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): High (H)
- Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
- Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
- Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
- Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): None (N)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): High (H)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
- Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
- Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
- Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
- Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
- Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
- Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
- Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
- Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
- Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
- Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
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vLLM through 0.29.0 Denial of Service via Incomplete NIXL KV Transfer Metadata
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.
References
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https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/v0.29.0/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/… technical-description
Affected products
vllm
- =<0.29.0
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.vllm
High-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
pkgs.pkgsRocm.vllm
High-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
pkgs.python313Packages.vllm
High-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
pkgs.pkgsRocm.python3Packages.vllm
None
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nixos-26.05 -
- nixos-26.05-small 0.16.0
Package maintainers
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@LunNova Luna Nova <nixpkgs-maintainer@lunnova.dev>
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@happysalada Raphael Megzari <raphael@megzari.com>
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@CertainLach Yaroslav Bolyukin <iam@lach.pw>
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@daniel-fahey Daniel Fahey <daniel.fahey+nixpkgs@pm.me>