# CVE-2026-111160: LightLLM through 1.2.0 Unauthenticated DoS via pd\_kv\_trans\_params Deserialization

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-15 · Updated: 2026-10-21

## Affected

- ModelTC LightLLM: through 1.2.0

## Description

LightLLM through 1.2.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the inference worker by supplying the internal pd_kv_trans_params field to the /generate endpoint. Attackers can send a single request whose parameters cause pickle.loads to fail in InferSamplingParams, killing the inference thread while /health stays up and all later requests hang until restart.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ModelTC LightLLM, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/ModelTC/LightLLM/issues/1629
- https://github.com/ModelTC/lightllm/blob/v1.2.0/lightllm/server/api_lightllm.py#L37-L43
- https://github.com/ModelTC/lightllm/blob/v1.2.0/lightllm/server/core/objs/sampling_params.py#L356-L357
- https://github.com/ModelTC/lightllm/blob/v1.2.0/lightllm/server/router/model_infer/infer_batch.py#L484-L485
- https://github.com/ModelTC/LightLLM
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/lightllm-through-1.2.0-unauthenticated-dos-via-pd-kv-trans-params-deserialization

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