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SCA: security update for vllm (GHSA-4r2x-xpjr-7cvv)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 437416

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.8.3 to before 0.14.1,
 when an invalid image is sent to vLLM's multimodal endpoint, PIL throws an error. vLLM returns this error
 to the client, leaking a heap address. With this leak, we reduce ASLR from 4 billion guesses to ~8
 guesses. This vulnerability can be chained a heap overflow with JPEG2000 decoder in OpenCV/FFmpeg to
 achieve remote code execution. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.14.1. (CVE-2026-22778)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4r2x-xpjr-7cvv

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 437416

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 2/2/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.02

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-22778

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/2/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-22778