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

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: October 26, 2026 at 04:56 PM UTC
Updated: October 28, 2026 at 03:38 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorvLLM

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

0.31.0 ≤ v < 0.32.0

References (4)

x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatchVendor Advisory
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-8397-8qf6-f2gm
x_refsource_MISCPatch
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/60614
x_refsource_MISCRelease Notes
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/releases/tag/v0.32.0

CVSS

6.5MEDIUMGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-770

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