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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-5497 EUVD-2026-36217GHSA-wcwg-c5fc-9vrcPYSEC-2026-2302

Unbounded Frame Count in video/jpeg Base64 Data URL Processing Leads to OOM DoS in vllm-project/vllm

Published Jun 11, 2026 · Updated Jul 22, 2026 · Assigned by @huntr_ai

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
vllm-project vllm-project/vllm unspecified – < 0.19.0 0.19.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI vllm >= 0.8.0, < 0.19.0 0.19.0 GHSA-wcwg-c5fc-9vrc

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