CVE-2026-116175 vLLM 0.19.0 before 0.24.0 Audio Decompression Bomb DoS via Chat Completions

What is CVE-2026-116175?

CVE-2026-116175 is a high-severity vulnerability in Vllm Vllm, published on 25 Oct 2026.

Official description

vLLM from 0.19.0 before 0.24.0 contains a decompression bomb vulnerability because the AudioMediaIO multimodal path calls load_audio without the max_duration_s decoded-duration limit. Authenticated attackers can send small compressed audio via input_audio or audio_url in /v1/chat/completions requests that expands to huge decoded PCM, exhausting server memory.

Weakness: CWE-409

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-116175?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Vllm Vllm.

How do I fix CVE-2026-116175?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-116175 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2026-116175 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-116175 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Vllm Vllm vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r45p-7qwx-qwjw, GHSA-vchq-p6cc-h35x.