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.
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History
11 Jun 2026, 14:16
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Information
Published : 2026-06-11 10:16
Updated : 2026-06-11 15:37
NVD link : CVE-2026-5497
Mitre link : CVE-2026-5497
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-5497
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Products Affected
No product.
CWE
CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
