CVE-2026-90554 PUBLISHED

vLLM before 0.28.0 Denial of Service via audio extraction

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 12.09.2026 Published: 12.09.2026 Updated: 12.09.2026

vLLM versions >=0.10.2 and <0.28.0 do not apply any audio decode-size or duration limit when extracting audio from video input for NanoNemotronVL models. In nano_nemotron_vl.py, _extract_audio_from_videos calls load_audio_pyav(BytesIO(video_bytes)) without the max_duration_s or max_decode_bytes parameters, so neither VLLM_MAX_AUDIO_DECODE_DURATION_S nor VLLM_MAX_AUDIO_DECODE_BYTES is enforced (unlike the direct audio upload path in AudioMediaIO). When a NanoNemotronVL model is served with use_audio_in_video=True, an attacker who supplies a small, highly compressed video as multimodal input can force the server to allocate gigabytes of memory during audio decoding, resulting in a denial of service. Fixed in vLLM 0.28.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor vllm-project
Product vLLM
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.10.2 to 0.28.0 (excl.)
  • Version 0.28.0 is unaffected

Credits

  • TobyB1702 reporter
  • jperezdealgaba coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE