CVE-2025-0315: Ollama Resource Exhaustion via Custom GGUF Models

# CVE-2025-0315: Ollama Resource Exhaustion via Custom GGUF Models

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/cve-2025-0315-ollama-resource-exhaustion-via-custom-gguf-mod · AIR-2025-0261 · closed 2025-03-20

- Lane: Patch now
- Severity: 2 (Disclosed vulnerability)
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2025-03-20
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: Ollama
- CVE ids: CVE-2025-0315
- CVSS: 7.5

## Summary

Ollama contains a vulnerability allowing users to upload custom GGUF models that cause unlimited memory allocation and server denial of service. The issue is addressed in updated versions.

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2025-03-20: CVE-2025-0315: A vulnerability in ollama/ollama <=0.3.14 allows a malicious user to create a customized GGUF model file, upload it to the Ollama… (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-0315)
- 2025-03-20: CVE-2025-0315: Ollama Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fccc-8m69-8r78)

## Sources

- 2025-03-20 GitHub Advisory Database: CVE-2025-0315: Ollama Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fccc-8m69-8r78
- 2025-03-20 NVD: CVE-2025-0315: A vulnerability in ollama/ollama <=0.3.14 allows a malicious user to create a customized GGUF model file, upload it to the Ollama… https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-0315

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