CVE-2026-44222
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Publication date: 2026-05-12

Last updated on: 2026-05-14

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.6.1 to before 0.20.0, there is a a Token Injection vulnerability in vLLM’s multimodal processing. Unauthenticated, text-only prompts that spell special tokens are interpreted as control. Image and video placeholder sequences supplied without matching data cause vLLM to index into empty grids during input-position computation, raising an unhandled IndexError and terminating the worker or degrading availability. Multimodal paths that rely on image_grid_thw/video_grid_thw are affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.20.0.
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Published
2026-05-12
Last Modified
2026-05-14
Generated
2026-05-20
EPSS Evaluated
2026-05-19
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vllm vllm From 0.6.1 (inc) to 0.20.0 (exc)
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CWE ID Description
CWE-129 The product uses untrusted input when calculating or using an array index, but the product does not validate or incorrectly validates the index to ensure the index references a valid position within the array.
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