Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting vllm package, versions [,0.29.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-VLLM-20158370
  • published27 Sept 2026
  • disclosed26 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-100648  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vllm to version 0.29.0 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 via load_file in vllm/multimodal/media/audio.py, where the VLLM_MAX_AUDIO_CLIP_FILESIZE_MB file size limit was not enforced on local file:// paths and multimodal chat audio inputs. An authenticated attacker can supply an arbitrarily large audio file through these unguarded paths, causing excessive resource consumption and crashing the service. The fix adds a call to _validate_encoded_size before decoding in load_file, extending the existing size check to all audio input paths.

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