vLLM from 0.18.0 before 0.31.0 contains a resource exhaustion vulnerability that allows API clients to bypass the video/jpeg frame-count…

Part of the AI stack

This affects vLLM, in Inference & serving.

Assessment

CVSS

8.7 (v4.0)

Severity

High

Known exploited

Not listed in CISA KEV

Exploit availability

Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories

Published

25 October 2026

Last updated

28 October 2026

Weakness

CWE-770

Assigner

disclosure@vulncheck.com

CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

At the source

• NVD

References

• https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-4m6g-h9mv-wqjc
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-0.18.0-before-0.31.0-memory-exhaustion-via-media-io-kwargs-num-frames-override

Query this programmatically

Agents can read this through the MCP endpoint, or over HTTP:

curl https://cve.zerocrew.in/api/cve/CVE-2026-116179