Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-73560 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-73560 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-73560?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.5, published 17 August 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- vllm (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.26.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-73560?
- Yes. vllm (PyPI): upgrade to 0.26.0 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-73560 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-73560?
- Check whether you run vllm (PyPI) or Vllm at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
How to fix
- vllm (PyPI): upgrade to 0.26.0 or later
pip install "vllm>=0.26.0"
Technical details
The vulnerability exists in vllm/transformers_utils/processors/mimo_v2_omni.py in the _fetch_image function (lines 231–249) and audio loader (line ~471). These functions call requests.get() directly on HTTP(S) URLs without allowlist validation or Image.open() on file:// paths without path restrictions, bypassing the SSRF and allowed_local_media_path checks in MediaConnector that were previously hardened in CVE-2026-46517, CVE-2026-46518, and related advisories. The vulnerable code is reachable via LLM.generate(multi_modal_data={"image": "http://..."}) and similar batch/library paths. An attacker with control over multi_modal_data can read AWS/GCP/Azure metadata endpoints, probe internal services on 127.0.0.1 or private networks, exfiltrate data via timing oracles, read /etc/passwd or ~/.aws/credentials via file://, or exhaust server resources by hammering arbitrary URLs. The remediation is to route image and audio fetching through MediaConnector.fetch_image/fetch_audio_async, which applies URL allowlists, network-target allowlists, size caps, and local-path allowlists already implemented in earlier patches.
Affected products
- vLLM Project vLLM < 0.26.0
Identifiers
- CVE-2026-73560
- GHSA-4hhp-h66f-j5j7
- PYSEC-2026-3934
Timeline
- 2026-09-08: disclosed
- 2026-09-08: patched: Fixed in vLLM 0.26.0