CVE-2026-34755Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Vllm

Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 86.62%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 6

Description

vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.7.0 to before 0.19.0, the VideoMediaIO.load_base64() method at vllm/multimodal/media/video.py splits video/jpeg data URLs by comma to extract individual JPEG frames, but does not enforce a frame count limit. The num_frames parameter (default: 32), which is enforced by the load_bytes() code path, is completely bypassed in the video/jpeg base64 path. An attacker can send a single API request containing thousands of co

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

PyPIvllm/vllm0.7.00.19.0
CVEListV5vllm-project/vllm>= 0.7.0, < 0.19.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
vLLM: Denial of Service via Unbounded Frame Count in video/jpeg Base64 Processing2026-04-03
GHSA
vLLM: Denial of Service via Unbounded Frame Count in video/jpeg Base64 Processing2026-04-03

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
vLLM: vLLM: Denial of Service due to excessive video frame processing2026-04-06

🕵️Threat Intelligence

5
Wiz
CVE-2026-34755 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
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CVE-2026-34753 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
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CVE-2026-34756 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2026-34755 vLLM: vLLM: Denial of Service due to excessive video frame processing2026-04-06