CVE-2026-54234: vLLM has Remote DoS via Invalid Recovered Token Reinjection
A frontend-legal multi-request speculative workload can make vLLM produce an out-of-vocabulary recovered token equal to vocab_size, convert that value to -1 when choosing the next live token for a request, and then feed that -1 back into the next drafter input ids. On Qwen3 GPTQ this reaches the worker-side drafting / attention path and crashes the engine with a GPU device-side assert.
The same issue is reachable through the public gRPC request surface by sending a specific overlapping Generate / Abort sequence.
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