Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting vllm package, versions [,0.24.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.69% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-VLLM-19883605
  • published17 Sept 2026
  • disclosed16 Sept 2026
  • creditkoonnamchok

Introduced: 16 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-57173  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vllm to version 0.24.0 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 through the input_audio processing path in /v1/chat/completions. An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation and crash the worker process by submitting a specially crafted compressed audio input that decompresses to a large size, bypassing duration and timeout safeguards.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1