vulnerability / NVI-00016010 / Revision 1
vLLM has RCE In Video Processing
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9.8 critical
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02 / Applicability
The affected context
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vllm
source listed>= 0.8.3, < 0.14.1
## Summary **A chain of vulnerabilities in vLLM allow Remote Code Execution (RCE):** 1. **Info Leak** - PIL error messages expose memory addresses, bypassing ASLR 2. **Heap Overflow** - JPEG2000 decoder in OpenCV/FFmpeg has a heap overflow that lets us hijack code execution **Result:** Send a malicious video URL to vLLM Completions or Invocations **for a video model** -> Execute arbitrary commands on the server Completely default vLLM instance directly from pip, or docker, does not have authentication so "None" privileges are required, but even with non-default api-key enabled configuration this exploit is feasible through invocations route that allows payload to execute pre-auth. Example heap target is provided, other heap targets can be exploited as well to achieve rce. Leak allows for simple ASLR bypass. Leak + heap overflow achieves RCE on versions prior to 0.14.1. Deployments not serving a video model are not affected. --- ## 1. Vulnerability Overview ### 1.1 The Bug: JPEG2000 cdef Box Heap Overflow The JPEG2000 decoder used by OpenCV (cv2) honors a `cdef` box that can remap color channels. When Y (luma) is mapped into the U (chroma) plane buffer, the decoder write
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- GHSA-4r2x-xpjr-7cvv ↗
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