CVE-2026-22778 CRITICAL

CVE-2026-22778: vLLM leaks a heap address when PIL throws an error

Vendor Vllm-Project
Product vllm
Weakness CWE-532 · Sensitive info in logs
Published February 2, 2026
Last update June 29, 2026

CVSS base score

9.8/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). From 0.8.3 to before 0.14.1, when an invalid image is sent to vLLM's multimodal endpoint, PIL throws an error. vLLM returns this error to the client, leaking a heap address. With this leak, we reduce ASLR from 4 billion guesses to ~8 guesses. This vulnerability can be chained a heap overflow with JPEG2000 decoder in OpenCV/FFmpeg to achieve remote code execution. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.14.1.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 2, 2026 CVE published
June 29, 2026 Record updated