# CVE-2026-116178: vLLM 0.20.0 before 0.30.0 DoS via /inference/v1/generate mm\_placeholders

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-109439, GHSA-W9HX-WR9V-56WV, GHSA-34QW-Q2H2-JP3M, PYSEC-2026-4353
- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.30.0
- Published: 2026-10-25 · Updated: 2026-10-26

## Affected

- vllm-project vllm: from 0.20.0, fixed in 0.30.0
- vllm (PyPI): from 0.20.0, fixed in 0.30.0

## Description

vLLM from 0.20.0 before 0.30.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows remote attackers to crash the engine by sending inconsistent multimodal metadata to the disaggregated /inference/v1/generate endpoint. Attackers can replay a valid multimodal item with repeated or overlapping mm_placeholders ranges or mismatched kwargs_data and mm_hashes lists, producing a negative text span in Qwen2.5-VL position construction that terminates the engine.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vllm-project vllm, vllm, upgrade to a fixed version (0.30.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-34qw-q2h2-jp3m
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-0.20.0-before-0.30.0-dos-via-inference-v1-generate-mm-placeholders

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