Unauthenticated denial of service via compressed payload
Published Mar 24, 2026 · Updated Mar 24, 2026
Denial of service in NVIDIA Triton Inference Server before 26.01 allows remote attackers to exhaust memory via a large compressed HTTP payload. The HTTP endpoint accepts attacker-controlled compressed content without preventing the excessive memory allocation identified by NVIDIA as CWE-789. No authentication or user interaction is required, and successful exploitation interrupts inference availability; NVIDIA has not identified the specific HTTP route or handler.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in NVIDIA Triton Inference Server before 26.01 allows remote attackers to exhaust memory via a large compressed HTTP payload. The HTTP endpoint accepts attacker-controlled compressed content without preventing the excessive memory allocation identified by NVIDIA as CWE-789. No authentication or user interaction is required, and successful exploitation interrupts inference availability; NVIDIA has not identified the specific HTTP route or handler.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-24158
- Published
- Mar 24, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 24, 2026
- Vendor
- DPDK Project
- Product
- Triton Inference Server
- Classifications
- CWE-789, T1499.003
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Mar 24, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 24, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=All versions prior to 26.01
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