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incidents/AIR-2026-0618

vLLM speculative decoding crashes server via penalty parameters

Attack on AI2 Disclosed vulnerabilityInfrastructure vulnerability

A vulnerability in vLLM allows a denial of service attack by sending requests with specific sampling penalty parameters. The issue causes the inference engine to crash deterministically.

disclosed CVENo confirmed exploitation, so this record is tracked as a disclosed vulnerability and not counted as an incident. It moves into the counts if CISA or the vendor confirms exploitation. Why

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Infrastructure vulnerability
    CVEs and advisories in AI frameworks, inference servers, MCP servers, AI developer tools and hosting stacks.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
no technique for these categories
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
2 · Disclosed vulnerability
CVE or vendor advisory, patched or patchable, no confirmed exploitation.
targets
Framework / tooling
products
vLLM
incident date
6 May 2026
first reported
6 May 2026
origin
GitHub Advisory Database
Vulnerability record from NVD / the GitHub Advisory Database. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
CVE-2026-44223 · dos · vllm
record
created 2026-10-18 07:00Z · updated 2026-10-18 10:04Z · json

Sources · 2

  1. 2026-05-06
    CVE-2026-44223: vLLM: extract_hidden_states speculative decoding crashes server on any request with penalty parameters
    GitHub Advisory Database · github.com/advisories/GHSA-83vm-p52w-f9pw
  2. 2026-05-12
    CVE-2026-44223: vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs).
    NVD · nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44223

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