CVE-2026-44222
Description
A flaw was found in vLLM, an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by supplying image or video placeholder sequences without matching data, leading to an unhandled error and worker termination. Additionally, text-only prompts containing special tokens can be misinterpreted as control commands, potentially leading to unexpected behavior.
Statement
This is an Important denial of service vulnerability affecting vLLM, as integrated into Red Hat AI Inference Server, Red Hat OpenShift AI, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger worker termination and degrade service availability by submitting malformed multimodal input or text prompts containing specific token sequences. This impact is significant due to the potential for service disruption in AI inference workloads.
Mitigation
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details
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CVSS v3 Score Breakdown
| Red Hat | NVD | cve.org | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 7.5 | 7.5 | 6.5 |
| Attack Vector | Network | Network | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low | Low | Low |
| Privileges Required | None | None | Low |
| User Interaction | None | None | None |
| Scope | Unchanged | Unchanged | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None | None | None |
| Integrity Impact | None | None | None |
| Availability Impact | High | High | High |
Vector
Red Hat: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
cve.org: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Other
Technical Impact: Varies by Context
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