CVE•Published 2026-10-25•Modified 2026-10-28•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-116181Vllm · Vllm
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS percentile
30
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 70% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
vLLM from 0.20.1 before 0.29.0 contains an improper input validation vulnerability that allows remote attackers to crash the engine by supplying out-of-vocabulary stop_token_ids. Attackers can send OpenAI chat, completion, generate, or batch requests with invalid IDs to terminate the engine or write outside the V2 runner's logits buffer.
Timeline
Published 2026-10-25
Modified 2026-10-28
External references
Search for exposed instances
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Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2026-116181Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Vllm Vllm"All exposed Vllm Vllm instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Vllm"HTTP body or banner mentions "Vllm" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-116181Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-116181Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
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CVE-2026-116181Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-116181GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-116181" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-116181 on GitHub.
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