Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-41523
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). Prior to 0.22.0, an assert-based security check in vLLM's activation function loading allows any unauthenticated attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution on the server by publishing a malicious HuggingFace model, when vLLM runs in Python optimized mode (python -O or PYTHONOPTIMIZE=1). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.22.0.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.007
EPSS Ranking 51.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-41523
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.10.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.10.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.10.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.11.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.11.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.11.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.12.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.13.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.14.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.14.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.15.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.15.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.15.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.16.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.16.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.17.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.17.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.17.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.18.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.18.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.18.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.19.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.19.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.19.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.2.6
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.2.7
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.20.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.20.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.20.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.21.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.21.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.5.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.5.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.5.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.6.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.6.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.6.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.6.6
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.8.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.8.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.8.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.9.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vllm:vllm:0.9.2