Bug 2487813 (CVE-2026-5497) - CVE-2026-5497 vllm: vLLM: Denial of Service via unbounded video frame processing
Summary: CVE-2026-5497 vllm: vLLM: Denial of Service via unbounded video frame processing
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-5497
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-11 10:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-16 03:50 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-11 10:01:16 UTC
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.


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