Description
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| vllm-project | vllm-project/vllm | unspecified – < 0.19.0 | 0.19.0 |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | vllm | >= 0.8.0, < 0.19.0 | 0.19.0 | GHSA-wcwg-c5fc-9vrc |
Advisories 1
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