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CVE-2026-54236
vLLM: incomplete CVE-2026-22778 fix leaks PIL repr addresses via Anthropic router
Description

vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). Prior to 0.23.1rc0, the fix for CVE-2026-22778, which introduced a sanitize_message helper that strips object-repr memory addresses from error messages before they reach the client, is incomplete: several response paths echo str(exc) directly to clients without calling sanitize_message. The unsanitized sites include the Anthropic API router in vllm/entrypoints/anthropic/api_router.py (the POST /v1/messages and POST /v1/messages/count_tokens handlers), the Server-Sent Events streaming converter in vllm/entrypoints/anthropic/serving.py, and the realtime speech-to-text WebSocket in vllm/entrypoints/speech_to_text/realtime/connection.py. These paths catch the exception inside the route coroutine and construct the JSONResponse themselves, bypassing the sanitizing global FastAPI exception handler, and WebSocket frames do not traverse that handler chain at all. Using the same primitive as the parent issue, an unauthenticated attacker can send malformed image bytes through the Anthropic Messages API image content parts so that PIL.Image.open raises an UnidentifiedImageError whose message contains the BytesIO object repr, leaking the heap memory address verbatim in the error.message field of the response body. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.23.1rc0.

INFO

Published Date :

June 22, 2026, 10:09 p.m.

Last Modified :

June 22, 2026, 10:09 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

No

Source :

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Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-54236 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Vllm-project vllm
Solution
Update vLLM to version 0.23.1rc0 or later to fix memory address leaks in error messages.
  • Update vLLM to version 0.23.1rc0 or later.
  • Ensure all response paths sanitize exception messages.
  • Review error handling for sensitive data exposure.

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