CVE-2026-126396vllm-project vllm allocation without limits
CVE-2026-126396 is a allocation without limits in vllm-project vllm, rated medium (6.9 on CVSS 4.0).
Why this priority: Medium severity, with no exploitation signal.
Published · Updated · NVD status: Awaiting Analysis
What it is
Resources are allocated without a cap, so a caller can exhaust them.
How it is reached
An attacker can exploit it over the network, without an account, and nobody has to click anything.
What an attacker gains
The direct impact is limited: partial access to data or a partial outage. In practice, this kind of flaw lets an attacker exhaust CPU, memory or connections until the service stops answering.
Is it being exploited?
There is no public report of exploitation yet. EPSS estimates a 0.42% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of scored CVEs.
What to do
- Upgrade vllm-project vllm to 0.31.0 or later.
- Until it is patched, keep it off the internet or behind a VPN, allowlist or authenticating proxy.
Description from NVD
vLLM from 0.24.0 before 0.31.0 contains a resource exhaustion vulnerability in the MiniMax M3 VL video processor, which accepts request-level min_pixels without range or min_pixels <= max_pixels validation. Its video-wide pixel budget is enforced only when max_long_side_pixel is set, and that value defaults to None. API clients can supply a large min_pixels via mm_processor_kwargs to enlarge every decoded frame, causing excessive CPU and host-memory consumption that may disrupt workers or the service.
What this means for your architecture.
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Components it touches
- Public entry points and shared services that must stay up. The flaw sits between untrusted traffic and shared capacity.
Trust boundaries in play
- Internet-facing entry points. No account is needed. Any instance reachable from outside your perimeter, through a load balancer, gateway, VPN or exposed admin port, is in scope.
- Between untrusted traffic and shared capacity. An attacker who crosses it can exhaust CPU, memory or connections until the service stops answering.
Questions to answer about your own systems
- Where does vllm-project vllm run in your systems, and at which version?
- Which of those instances can be reached from the internet or partner networks?
- What can it reach once compromised: which data stores, secrets and services?
Sources
- CVE records and CVSS scores from the NVD CVE API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Exploitation status from CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
- Exploit likelihood from FIRST’s Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), refreshed daily.
- Explanations are written by Veriom from fixed templates over each record’s data, not by a person reviewing each CVE. Descriptions are quoted from the records as published.