Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting vllm package, versions [0,]
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- published22 Sept 2026
- disclosed17 Sept 2026
Introduced: 17 Sep 2026
NewCVE-2026-93436 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
vllm is an A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime via the decode-worker process. An attacker can cause memory exhaustion by submitting requests with max_tokens=0, leading to unbounded memory usage until the worker restarts.