Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting vllm package, versions [, 0.19.1)
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- published17 Jun 2026
- disclosed11 Jun 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 11 Jun 2026
NewCVE-2026-5497 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade vllm to version 0.19.1 or higher.
Overview
vllm is an A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the VideoMediaIO.load_base64 function. An attacker can cause the server to exhaust memory resources and crash by sending an API request with an excessive number of base64-encoded JPEG frames within a data URL.