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CVE-2026-5497
Published:June 11, 2026
Updated:August 04, 2026
vLLM versions 0.8.0 and later are vulnerable to an Out-of-Memory (OOM) Denial of Service (DoS) attack due to unbounded frame count processing in the "VideoMediaIO.load_base64()" method. When processing "video/jpeg" data URLs, the method splits the base64 data string on commas to extract individual JPEG frames without enforcing a frame count limit. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a single API request containing thousands of comma-separated base64-encoded JPEG frames in a data URL, causing the server to decode all frames into memory and crash due to excessive memory consumption. This vulnerability is reachable via the OpenAI-compatible chat completions API and does not require authentication.
Affected Packages
vllm (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=0.8.3 <0.19.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.19.0
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v0.1.0 <v0.19.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v0.19.0
vllm (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=0.8.0 <0.19.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.19.0
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
EPSS
Base Score:
0.54