Bug 2532572 (CVE-2026-90554)

Summary: CVE-2026-90554 vllm: vLLM: Denial of Service via video audio extraction
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A flaw was found in vLLM. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by providing a specially crafted, highly compressed video as multimodal input when the NanoNemotronVL model is configured to use audio from video. The lack of proper size or duration limits during audio extraction from the video input can force the server to allocate excessive memory, leading to system instability and preventing legitimate users from accessing the service.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-12 12:22:06 UTC
vLLM versions >=0.10.2 and <0.28.0 do not apply any audio decode-size or duration limit when extracting audio from video input for NanoNemotronVL models. In nano_nemotron_vl.py, _extract_audio_from_videos calls load_audio_pyav(BytesIO(video_bytes)) without the max_duration_s or max_decode_bytes parameters, so neither VLLM_MAX_AUDIO_DECODE_DURATION_S nor VLLM_MAX_AUDIO_DECODE_BYTES is enforced (unlike the direct audio upload path in AudioMediaIO). When a NanoNemotronVL model is served with use_audio_in_video=True, an attacker who supplies a small, highly compressed video as multimodal input can force the server to allocate gigabytes of memory during audio decoding, resulting in a denial of service. Fixed in vLLM 0.28.0.