CVE-2025-6242: vLLM vulnerable to SSRF through MediaConnector

# CVE-2025-6242: vLLM vulnerable to SSRF through MediaConnector

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/cve-2025-6242-vllm-vulnerable-to-ssrf-through-mediaconnector · AIR-2025-0351 · closed 2025-10-07

- Lane: Patch now
- Severity: 2 (Disclosed vulnerability)
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2025-10-07
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: vLLM
- CVE ids: CVE-2025-6242
- CVSS: 7.1

## Summary

A Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability in the vLLM MediaConnector class allows users to coerce the server into fetching arbitrary URLs. This flaw can enable internal network scanning in containerized environments.

## What to do

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

## Latest updates

- 2025-10-07: CVE-2025-6242: A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability exists in the MediaConnector class within the vLLM project's multimodal… (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6242)
- 2025-10-07: CVE-2025-6242: vLLM is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) through `MediaConnector` class (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3f6c-7fw2-ppm4)

## Sources

- 2025-10-07 GitHub Advisory Database: CVE-2025-6242: vLLM is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) through `MediaConnector` class https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3f6c-7fw2-ppm4
- 2025-10-07 NVD: CVE-2025-6242: A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability exists in the MediaConnector class within the vLLM project's multimodal… https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6242

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