CVE-2026-93989: vLLM through 0.29.0 Cross-Request Logits Corruption via bad_words

Published Sep 19, 2026
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Updated

vLLM through 0.29.0 fails to properly validate badwords token indices against the model's generation output width in SamplingParams.updatefromtokenizer(). Attackers can supply out-of-bounds token indices that corrupt logits memory of concurrent requests, causing different in-flight HTTP requests to return incorrect tokens.

Affected Software

1 affected component
vllm<=0.29.0

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade vLLM to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 0.29.0

Event History

Sep 19, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·10:58 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·10:58 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness

Frequently Asked Questions

1

Who can exploit this issue?

An attacker needs network access to a vLLM service and low-privilege access sufficient to submit requests with crafted bad_words token indices. Exploitation also depends on concurrent in-flight HTTP requests, because the corruption affects another request's logits memory.

2

What is the observable impact of successful exploitation?

Concurrent HTTP requests can return incorrect generated tokens. The provided impact information indicates integrity impact only; it does not indicate confidentiality or availability impact.

3

Which versions are affected?

vLLM through version 0.29.0 is affected. The supplied data does not identify a fixed release version.

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