vLLM up to and including 0.17.0 allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service via memory exhaustion. The AsyncMediaIO.fetch_audio and AsyncMediaIO.fetch_image functions in multimodal/inputs.py fetch user-supplied media URLs using aiohttp and call r.read() without enforcing a maximum response size, allowing an attacker to exhaust server memory by providing a URL to an arbitrarily large file.
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| Title | vllm: vLLM: Denial of Service via memory exhaustion from oversized media files | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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| Title | Denial of Service via Unbounded Media Download in vLLM 0.17.0 |
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| Title | Denial of Service via Unbounded Media Download in vLLM 0.17.0 | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-400 |
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| Description | vLLM up to and including 0.17.0 allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service via memory exhaustion. The AsyncMediaIO.fetch_audio and AsyncMediaIO.fetch_image functions in multimodal/inputs.py fetch user-supplied media URLs using aiohttp and call r.read() without enforcing a maximum response size, allowing an attacker to exhaust server memory by providing a URL to an arbitrarily large file. | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2026-08-28T19:30:40.068Z
Reserved: 2026-04-06T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2026-37237
Updated: 2026-08-28T19:30:31.842Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-28T16:17:46.300
Modified: 2026-08-28T22:16:48.207
Link: CVE-2026-37237