InternLM LMDeploy up to 0.17.0 DistServe resource consumption

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in InternLM LMDeploy up to 0.17.0. This affects an unknown part of the component DistServe. Performing a manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-92983. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in InternLM LMDeploy up to 0.17.0. This affects some unknown functionality of the component DistServe. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

InternLM LMDeploy through 0.17.0 in DistServe prefill/decode disaggregation mode fails to release scheduler sessions because the proxy uses user-facing session IDs instead of internal scheduler keys. Unauthenticated attackers can send completion requests to the proxy endpoint that accumulate unreleased scheduler metadata and memory until the prefill worker is out-of-memory killed.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-92983 since 09/17/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• InternLM

Name

• LMDeploy

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17.0

Website

• Product: https://github.com/InternLM/lmdeploy/

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