Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting vllm package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-VLLM-17372794
  • published18 Jun 2026
  • disclosed17 Jun 2026
  • creditRTV

Introduced: 17 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-54233  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-409  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

vllm is an A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) through the audio.py file. An attacker can cause excessive memory consumption by uploading a specially crafted compressed audio file that decompresses to a very large size, leading to resource exhaustion and potential service disruption.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1