GPU VulnDB

Database/AI/ML frameworks & serving

NVIDIA Triton Inference Server: unauthenticated request triggers excessive iteration and hangs the server

CVSS 7.5CVE-2026-16497AI/ML frameworks & servingcurated

Impact

An unauthenticated request can drive Triton into excessive iteration, ending in denial of service for the inference endpoint. On a GPU fleet this takes out the process that owns the GPUs for that model, so every tenant or caller behind that endpoint loses service until the daemon is restarted, and the reserved GPUs sit idle in the meantime. NVIDIA's record scores confidentiality and integrity as unaffected, so the exposure is availability only. The advisory text does not say which request path or which parser is involved.

Who can reach it

Anyone who can reach the Triton HTTP/gRPC endpoint over the network. No authentication required (CVSS PR:N), so the blast radius depends entirely on whether the endpoint is exposed beyond the cluster or fronted by a gateway that authenticates.

What to do

Update Triton to the fixed release named in NVIDIA bulletin 2026/5875 and restart the inference server; the record given here does not state the fixed version, so read the bulletin before scheduling. No node drain or reboot is implied - this is a userspace daemon restart per serving pod, which for a replicated deployment is a rolling restart. Until patched, keep the endpoint behind an authenticating gateway and rate-limit untrusted callers.

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