| Component | vLLM |
| Severity | high (CVSS 7.5) |
| CVSS vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Published (NVD) | 2026-09-21 |
| Last modified | 2026-09-29 |
| Affected versions | vllm <= 0.29.0 |
| Fixed in | see the vendor advisory |
| Weakness | CWE-770 |
| CISA KEV | not listed |
NVD description
vLLM through 0.29.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in P2P KV offloading when OffloadingConnector is configured with TieringOffloadingSpec and a peer-to-peer secondary tier. Attackers can supply arbitrary remote host and port values in kv_transfer_params to create unreachable peer sessions that retain ZeroMQ sockets until the context quota is exhausted, causing an uncaught ZMQError that crashes EngineCore and stops all inference.
What to do
- NVD lists no fixed version yet: follow the vendor advisory below and keep vLLM off the public internet until a fix ships.
- Do not expose the component's API or UI to the internet without authentication in front of it.
Sources
- NVD: CVE-2026-94624
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/51504
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-through-0.29.0-denial-of-service-via-unbounded-p2p-kv-offloading-sessions
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/v0.29.0/vllm/v1/kv_offload/tiering/p2p/control/zmq.py#L240-L260
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/v0.29.0/vllm/v1/kv_offload/tiering/p2p/manager.py#L667-L677
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