# CVE-2026-34755: vLLM Affected by Denial of Service via Unbounded Frame Count in video/jpeg Base64 Processing

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-144, GHSA-PQ5C-RJHQ-QP7P
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.19.0
- Published: 2026-04-06 · Updated: 2026-08-25

## Affected

- vllm-project vllm: from 0.7.0, fixed in 0.19.0
- vllm (PyPI): from 0.7.0, fixed in 0.19.0

## Description

vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.7.0 to before 0.19.0, the VideoMediaIO.load_base64() method at vllm/multimodal/media/video.py splits video/jpeg data URLs by comma to extract individual JPEG frames, but does not enforce a frame count limit. The num_frames parameter (default: 32), which is enforced by the load_bytes() code path, is completely bypassed in the video/jpeg base64 path. An attacker can send a single API request containing thousands of comma-separated base64-encoded JPEG frames, causing the server to decode all frames into memory and crash with OOM. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.19.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vllm-project vllm, vllm, upgrade to a fixed version (0.19.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-pq5c-rjhq-qp7p

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