# CVE-2026-115913: vLLM: Phi-4 multimodal audio encoder materializes and retains full attention matrices: a single max-length audio OOM-crashes the vLLM engine


- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 26 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 26 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8397-8qf6-f2gm

## What is CVE-2026-115913?

CVE-2026-115913 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vllm Vllm, published on 26 Oct 2026. 

### Official description

vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models. Prior to 0.32.0, the Phi-4 multimodal audio encoder in phi4mm_audio.py and phi4mm_utils.py uses eager attention by default, allowing a remote client to submit one legal long audio clip that causes MultiHeadedAttention.forward_attention to materialize and retain full attention matrices in self.attn. The scaled dot-product attention branch does not materialize these matrices. The resulting quadratic GPU-memory use can cause an out-of-memory condition and terminate EngineCore for all users. This issue is fixed in version 0.32.0.

Weakness: CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-115913?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including vllm. It affects 1 product.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `vllm` | PyPI | All versions | 0.32.0 |
| `vllm` | PyPI | All versions | 0.32.0 |

Products: Vllm Vllm.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-115913?

Upgrade vllm to 0.32.0 or later.

## Is CVE-2026-115913 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-115913 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Vllm Vllm

- [CVE-2025-32444](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-32444/): vLLM Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via Mooncake Integration (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2026-22778](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-22778/): vLLM leaks a heap address when PIL throws an error (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-47277](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-47277/): vLLM Allows Remote Code Execution via PyNcclPipe Communication Service (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-11041](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11041/): Remote Code Execution in vllm-project/vllm (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-48746](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-48746/): vLLM: OpenAI auth bypass (critical 9.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-115913 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-115913 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vllm Vllm, published on 26 Oct 2026. 
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-115913 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected packages and fixed versions:
- vllm (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 0.32.0
- vllm (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 0.32.0

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-115913/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-115913/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-115913
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115913
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-115913

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-115913/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.