CVE-2026-5497 (GCVE-0-2026-5497)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-11 08:31 – Updated: 2026-06-11 08:31
VLAI
Title
Unbounded Frame Count in video/jpeg Base64 Data URL Processing Leads to OOM DoS in vllm-project/vllm
Summary
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.
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vllm-project vllm-project/vllm Affected: unspecified , < 0.19.0 (custom)
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