Servers and applications
CVE-2026-115914
DeepSeek-OCR family: an image whose normalized pixels sum to exactly 0 makes embed_multimodal return None, tripping the encoder-output sanity assert — one unauthenticated request kills the whole vLLM engine (default config)
- Severity
- Medium 6.5
- Published
- 20 Oct 2026
- Last changed
- 30 Oct 2026
- Added to UpHeron
- 3 Nov 2026
- Fixed in
- 0.32.0
- Also known as
- GHSA-gq5q-89c7-vhvx
- Sources
- NVD, CVE Program, Project advisories (GitHub)
Description
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models. From 0.11.1 until 0.32.0, the DeepSeek-OCR, DeepSeek-OCR-2, and Unlimited-OCR image path allows a remote client that can reach the OpenAI-compatible API to submit a legal image whose normalized pixels sum to zero when that image is alone in its per-step encoder batch. _parse_and_validate_image_input returns no embedding,…
Affected software
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
vLLMServers and applications · cna:vllm-project|vllm |
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vLLMServers and applications · cpe:a:vllm:vllm |
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vLLMServers and applications · github:vllm-project/vllm |
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References
- NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115914
- CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-115914
- GitHub Advisory Database https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gq5q-89c7-vhvx
- github.com https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-gq5q-89c7-vhvx