vLLM through 0.29.0 fetches and fully materializes remote or inline media before enforcing its documented media controls (the VLLM_MAX_AUDIO_CLIP_FILESIZE_MB compressed-audio size cap, default 25 MB, and the per-modality --limit-mm-per-prompt item limits). Across four ingress paths — the shared media-acquisition layer (HTTPConnection.get_bytes()/async_get_bytes()), the chat completions audio_url/base64 path, the batch speech runner, and the Rust frontend POST /tokenize route — the server reads the entire HTTP response body, base64-decodes the inline payload, or spawns one fetch/decode task per media part, and only then applies the limit (or, on some paths, never applies it). A remote attacker can therefore cause the API server or batch-runner process to allocate memory and consume outbound bandwidth proportional to an attacker-chosen body size or media item count before the request is rejected, resulting in pre-inference memory and bandwidth exhaustion (denial of service). The chat and batch surfaces require an API key when one is configured; the Rust frontend /tokenize route is unauthenticated by design. There is no code execution or data disclosure impact.
CVE-2026-100650
“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.
Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-26. A secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.
Also known asEUVD-2026-87744 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 6.5MEDIUMmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 45EG Risk 45/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity65% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 6.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation40% × 40%EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 0.8%
- EPSS %ILE
- 56th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (6.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 6.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.8% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
September 26, 2026
Last Modified
October 6, 2026
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Sep 26, 2026vLLM before 0.29.0 Resource Exhaustion via Unbounded Media Materialization | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vllm-before-0.29.0-resource-exhaustion-via-unbounded-media-materializationcommit 752a3a504485 (vllm-project/vllm)
Fix landed in vllm-project/vllm commit 752a3a504485 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/752a3a504485790a2e8491cacbb35c137339ad34Remote media is fetched and fully materialized before the documented media size / item limits are enforced — remote pre-inference memory and bandwidth exhaustion (4 sites) · Advisory · vllm-project/vllm · GitHub
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-p6g9-7v3x-m8mvVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-100650(8)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:90440Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 3.4.6 security update
- RHSA-2026:90432Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 3.4.6 security update
- RHSA-2026:84734Red Hat Product SecurityCritical
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHOAI 3.4.5 - Red Hat OpenShift AI
- RHSA-2026:83121Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AI Inference 3.4.6 (rocm)
- RHSA-2026:83120Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AI Inference 3.4.6 (cuda)
- RHSA-2026:83114Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AI Inference 3.4.6 (spyre)
- RHSA-2026:83112Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AI Inference 3.4.6 (cpu)
- GHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27GitHub Security AdvisoriesHigh
vLLM through 0.29.0 fetches and fully materializes remote or inline media before enforcing its...
Patch Availability(5)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | rhoai/odh-kserve-storage-initializer-rhel9:1790958549 | 2026-10-19 | redhat |
| redhat | rhaii/vllm-rocm-rhel9:1791856725 | 2026-10-14 | redhat |
| redhat | rhaii/vllm-cpu-rhel9:1791857301 | 2026-10-14 | redhat |
| redhat | rhaii/vllm-spyre-rhel9:1791858592 | 2026-10-14 | redhat |
| redhat | rhaii/vllm-cuda-rhel9:1791857183 | 2026-10-14 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
PyPI(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| vllm | 0.0.1 ... 0.9.2 (97 versions) |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 60× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
- 2026-11-01 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
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- 2026-10-26 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
- 2026-10-26 15:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-26 15:32 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-26 15:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-25 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
- 2026-10-25 15:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
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- 2026-10-23 09:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 09:53 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-23 09:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-22 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
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- 2026-10-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 49th percentile
- 2026-10-12 04:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-11 20:16 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-11 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 49th percentile
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- 2026-10-11 02:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
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- 2026-10-10 00:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-10 00:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
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- 2026-10-08 23:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 23:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
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- 2026-10-07 21:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-06 19:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-06 19:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
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- 2026-10-06 18:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-06 15:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
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- 2026-10-05 17:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
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- 2026-10-04 15:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
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- 2026-10-03 14:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-02 12:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-02 12:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
- 2026-10-01 11:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-01 11:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-09-30 15:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-30 15:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
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- 2026-09-30 14:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-09-29 23:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-29 23:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-09-29 15:20 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
- 2026-09-28 20:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
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- 2026-09-27 16:04 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-27 16:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j8gm-f3cq-6c27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-09-26 14:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-26 13:38 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 6.5 MEDIUM
- 2026-09-26 13:30 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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