Unauthenticated denial of service in LightLLM via pd_kv_trans_params
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Code execution
- 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-502.
Summary
LightLLM through 1.2.0 by ModelTC deserializes untrusted data (CWE-502) when a request to the /generate endpoint supplies the internal pd_kv_trans_params field. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a single request that makes pickle.loads fail, which kills the inference thread so that later requests hang until restart. A public exploit is linked in the references.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Description from the CNA
LightLLM through 1.2.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the inference worker by supplying the internal pd_kv_trans_params field to the /generate endpoint. Attackers can send a single request whose parameters cause pickle.loads to fail in InferSamplingParams, killing the inference thread while /health stays up and all later requests hang until restart.
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
The sources list no fixed version for LightLLM.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Timeline
- 2026-10-16 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-111160
- 2026-10-16 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-21 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-21 Priority changed: LOW → HIGH
References
Other 4
- https://github.com/ModelTC/lightllm/blob/v1.2.0/lightllm/server/api_lightllm.py#L37-L43
- https://github.com/ModelTC/lightllm/blob/v1.2.0/lightllm/server/core/objs/sampling_params.py#L356-L357
- https://github.com/ModelTC/lightllm/blob/v1.2.0/lightllm/server/router/model_infer/infer_batch.py#L484-L485
- https://github.com/ModelTC/LightLLM
More ModelTC vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-65681 LightLLM through 1.2.0 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via Visual-Only RPyC Service CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-65562 LightLLM through 1.2.0 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via Embed Cache RPyC Service CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-65561 LightLLM through 1.2.0 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via Router Profiler RPyC Service CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-63189 LightLLM through 1.2.0 Missing Authentication in PD Master /pd_register WebSocket Endpoint CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-61785 LightLLM through 1.2.0 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via Config Server Pickle Deserialization CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-21211 LightLLM <= 1.1.0 PD Mode Unsafe Deserialization RCE CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
Sources
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