CVE-2025-6242

Vllm: server side request forgery (ssrf) in mediaconnector

Published: Oct 7, 2025Updated: Oct 8, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-918

7.1HIGH

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:HAttack Complexity

High

PR:LPrivileges Required

Low

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:LIntegrity

Low

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-918

Affected Products

Red Hat

commercial·US

Red Hat AI Inference ServerOn-prem

Operating Systems / linux-distro

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI)On-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

PyPI

package-ecosystem

vllm

OSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

Workaround Available

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2 techniques

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6242

access.redhat.com

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373716

bugzilla.redhat.com

https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories/GHSA-3f6c-7fw2-ppm4

github.com

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