Vulnerability · CVE-2026-44222
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs).
Published May 12, 2026 · catalog updated Jun 17, 2026 · vLLM is an inference
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No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2026-44222. EPSS is 0.46%. Act only if a listed version of vLLM is an inference is installed.
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- Severity
- High7.5
- Known exploitation
- Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 0.46%
- Remediation
- Advisory link
- Affected products
- cpe vllm/vllm
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.6.1 to before 0.20.0, there is a a Token Injection vulnerability in vLLM’s multimodal processing. Unauthenticated, text-only prompts that spell special tokens are interpreted as control. Image and video placeholder sequences supplied without matching data cause vLLM to index into empty grids during input-position computation, raising an unhandled IndexError and terminating the worker or degrading availability. Multimodal paths that rely on image_grid_thw/video_grid_thw are affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.20.0.
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- cpe vllm/vllmversion unspecified
How to fix CVE-2026-44222
Recommended remediation
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Official advisories
What to do
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Should you patch?
No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2026-44222. EPSS is 0.46%. Act only if a listed version of vLLM is an inference is installed.
Which versions are affected?
Affected version ranges are not on this record. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.
What should an analyst verify?
CWE-129: Improper Validation of Array Index. EPSS 0.46%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
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Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
May 12, 2026 · NIST NVD
Detected
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.6.1 to before 0.20.0, there is a a Token Injection vulnerability in vLLM’s multimodal processing. Unauthenticated, text-only prompts that spell special tokens are interpreted as control. Image and video placeholder sequences supplied without matching data cause vLLM to index into empty grids during input-position comp
Jun 17, 2026 · NIST NVD
Updated
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.6.1 to before 0.20.0, there is a a Token Injection vulnerability in vLLM’s multimodal processing. Unauthenticated, text-only prompts that spell special tokens are interpreted as control. Image and video placeholder sequences supplied without matching data cause vLLM to index into empty grids during input-position comp
Sources
- CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-44222
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2026-44222
30-day exploitation probability 0.5%
first.org - NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-44222
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.6.1 to before 0.20.0, there is a a Token Injection vulnerability in vLLM’s multimodal processing. Unauthenticated, text-only prompts that spell special tokens are interpreted as control. Image and vi
nvd.nist.gov
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.