InternLM LMDeploy through 0.17.0 Assertion Denial of Service
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-617.
Summary
InternLM LMDeploy through 0.17.0 contains a reachable assertion vulnerability in the DistServe decode migration loop that allows unauthenticated attackers to terminate the inference engine. Attackers can submit a migration_request with an empty remote_block_ids list to trigger an AssertionError that crashes the engine loop and causes subsequent inference requests to fail.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-92971
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3j7h-8qqw-4p7v
References
Other 5
- GitHub Issue #4965
- https://github.com/InternLM/lmdeploy/blob/v0.17.0/lmdeploy/pytorch/engine/engine_loop.py#L560-L564
- https://github.com/InternLM/lmdeploy/blob/v0.17.0/lmdeploy/serve/openai/endpoints/completions.py#L130-L136
- https://github.com/InternLM/lmdeploy/blob/v0.17.0/lmdeploy/pytorch/utils.py#L187-L214
- https://github.com/InternLM/lmdeploy
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- TI-2025-37341 LMdeploy has Remote Code Execution by Pickle Deserialization via zmq_rpc.call_and_response() in InterLM/lmdeploy CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-83181 Unauthenticated RCE in InternLM LMDeploy via pickle deserialization CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-53684 LMDeploy Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in the Disaggregated Serving Peer Connector CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-62637 InternLM LMDeploy through 0.17.0 Memory Exhaustion via Session ID Mismatch CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-45351 LMDeploy Server-Side Request Forgery via HTTP Redirect Bypass CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.7
Sources
- CVE-2026-92971 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-92971 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-3j7h-8qqw-4p7v · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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