CVE-2026-54233: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models LLMs. Prior to 0.23.1rc0, vLLM's /v1/audio/transcriptions endpoint limits compressed upload size but not decoded PCM output. A 25MB OPUS file expands to 14.9GB of float32 PCM at decode time. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.23.1rc0...