diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/ci-bake-rocm.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/ci-bake-rocm.sh
index 6c5f3308b7..0a9e6e7589 100644
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/ci-bake-rocm.sh
+++ b/.buildkite/scripts/ci-bake-rocm.sh
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ validate_ci_build_context_source() {
 
 describe_ci_revision() {
     git -C "$1" describe --tags --long --abbrev=10 \
-        --match '*[0-9]*' "$2" 2>/dev/null
+        --match 'v[0-9]*' "$2" 2>/dev/null
 }
 
 write_ci_git_archival_metadata() {
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b24bcc1a2c..ed9616195f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,6 +22,18 @@ from setuptools_rust.build import build_rust
 from setuptools_scm import get_version
 from torch.utils.cpp_extension import CUDA_HOME, ROCM_HOME
 
+# Select vLLM release tags, excluding crate tags such as "proto-v0.3.0".
+VLLM_GIT_DESCRIBE_COMMAND = [
+    "git",
+    "describe",
+    "--dirty",
+    "--tags",
+    "--long",
+    "--abbrev=40",
+    "--match",
+    "v[0-9]*",
+]
+
 
 def load_module_from_path(module_name, path):
     spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(module_name, path)
@@ -1249,9 +1261,15 @@ def get_vllm_version() -> str:
     if env_version := os.getenv("VLLM_VERSION_OVERRIDE"):
         print(f"Overriding VLLM version with {env_version} from VLLM_VERSION_OVERRIDE")
         os.environ["SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION"] = env_version
-        return get_version(write_to="vllm/_version.py")
+        return get_version(
+            write_to="vllm/_version.py",
+            git_describe_command=VLLM_GIT_DESCRIBE_COMMAND,
+        )
 
-    version = get_version(write_to="vllm/_version.py")
+    version = get_version(
+        write_to="vllm/_version.py",
+        git_describe_command=VLLM_GIT_DESCRIBE_COMMAND,
+    )
     sep = "+" if "+" not in version else "."  # dev versions might contain +
 
     if not envs.VLLM_SKIP_VERSION_SUFFIX:
diff --git a/tools/build_rust.py b/tools/build_rust.py
index a000ec8169..320cf75e3d 100644
--- a/tools/build_rust.py
+++ b/tools/build_rust.py
@@ -16,13 +16,28 @@ from setuptools_scm import get_version
 ROOT_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
 VLLM_RS_BUILD_VERSION = "VLLM_RS_BUILD_VERSION"
 
+# Select vLLM release tags, excluding crate tags such as "proto-v0.3.0".
+VLLM_GIT_DESCRIBE_COMMAND = [
+    "git",
+    "describe",
+    "--dirty",
+    "--tags",
+    "--long",
+    "--abbrev=40",
+    "--match",
+    "v[0-9]*",
+]
+
 
 def prepare_build_environment() -> str | None:
     """Set the device-independent vLLM source version for Rust artifacts."""
     version = os.getenv(VLLM_RS_BUILD_VERSION) or None
     if version is None:
         try:
-            version = get_version(root=ROOT_DIR)
+            version = get_version(
+                root=ROOT_DIR,
+                git_describe_command=VLLM_GIT_DESCRIBE_COMMAND,
+            )
         except LookupError:
             return None