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

Low 2.3 Published Updated

Attackers can corrupt logits memory of concurrent requests by supplying out-of-bounds token indices, causing incorrect token generation.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2026-93989?

CVE-2026-93989 is a low-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Vllm Vllm, published on 19 Sep 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

vLLM through 0.29.0 fails to properly validate bad_words token indices against the model's generation output width in SamplingParams.update_from_tokenizer(). 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.

Weakness: CWE-129

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-93989?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including vllm. It affects 1 product.

PackageAffectedFixed in
vllm PyPIAll versions0.30.0

Products include Vllm Vllm.

How do I fix CVE-2026-93989?

Upgrade vllm to 0.30.0 or later.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2026-93989 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-93989 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-pc5q-2x89-w436, MINI-hjj4-jr5g-8cmw, MINI-m2jx-j68h-jmxf, MINI-qchg-gg2q-q534, PYSEC-2026-4000.

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