CVE-2026-44223 vLLM: extract_hidden_states speculative decoding crashes server on any request with penalty parameters

vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models LLMs. From 0.18.0 to before 0.20.0, the extracthiddenstates speculative decoding proposer in vLLM returns a tensor with an incorrect shape after the first decode step, causing a RuntimeError that crashes the EngineCore process. The...