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CVE-2026-54235

vLLM: temperature=NaN and temperature=Infinity bypass validation and propagate to GPU kernels

CVSS 6.9 MEDIUMEPSS 0.3%CWE-1287
Vexday Risk Score
13Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC Patch
Lifecycle
22 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). Prior to 0.23.1rc0, ll temperature validation gates use comparison operators (<, >), which silently evaluate to False for NaN and for positive Infinity in Python's IEEE 754 float semantics. Both values pass every guard and propagate to GPU sampling kernels, where they produce undefined behavior or CUDA errors that can crash the inference worker. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.23.1rc0.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
vllm-project · vllm

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