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SCA: security update for vllm (GHSA-wcwg-c5fc-9vrc)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 446105

Description

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

 - vLLM versions 0.8.0 and later are vulnerable to an Out-of-Memory (OOM) Denial of Service (DoS) attack due
 to unbounded frame count processing in the `VideoMediaIO.load_base64()` method. When processing
 `video/jpeg` data URLs, the method splits the base64 data string on commas to extract individual JPEG
 frames without enforcing a frame count limit. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a single API
 request containing thousands of comma-separated base64-encoded JPEG frames in a data URL, causing the
 server to decode all frames into memory and crash due to excessive memory consumption. This vulnerability
 is reachable via the OpenAI-compatible chat completions API and does not require authentication.
 (CVE-2026-5497)

Solution

Update the vllm library and its related packages to version 0.19.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wcwg-c5fc-9vrc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 446105

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2026

Updated: 8/19/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-5497

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-5497