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CVE-2025-6242: Vllm: server side request forgery (ssrf) in mediaconnector

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-10-07 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-918

Description

A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability exists in the MediaConnector class within the vLLM project's multimodal feature set. The load_from_url and load_from_url_async methods fetch and process media from user-provided URLs without adequate restrictions on the target hosts. This allows an attacker to coerce the vLLM server into making arbitrary requests to internal network resources.

Affected products

• Red Hat AI Inference Server: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI): all versions

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6242
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373716

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