CVE-2026-34755
vLLM Affected by Denial of Service via Unbounded Frame Count in video/jpeg Base64 Processing
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- Apr 6, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 25, 2026
- Reserved
- Mar 30, 2026
Description
vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.7.0 to before 0.19.0, the VideoMediaIO.load_base64() method at vllm/multimodal/media/video.py splits video/jpeg data URLs by comma to extract individual JPEG frames, but does not enforce a frame count limit. The num_frames parameter (default: 32), which is enforced by the load_bytes() code path, is completely bypassed in the video/jpeg base64 path. An attacker can send a single API request containing thousands of comma-separated base64-encoded JPEG frames, causing the server to decode all frames into memory and crash with OOM. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.19.0.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | redhat-SADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
vllmvllm-project |
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References
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-pq5c-rjhq-qp7p
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-34755vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2455403issue-tracking
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-34755.json
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36005vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36006vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57380vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57389vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57390vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57387vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:59151vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:59144vendor-advisory
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