Advisories for Cargo/Mistralrs-Server-Core package

mistral.rs fetches any request-supplied image/audio URL with no host or IP validation, and opens arbitrary local files (a file:// URL, or any existing relative/absolute path). A remote, unauthenticated client of any vision/audio deployment can cause the server to issue requests to internal or cloud-metadata addresses (SSRF) and to open arbitrary local files, via the standard OpenAI image_url / audio_url message content. The server is unauthenticated by default.

The POST /v1/chat/completions endpoint in mistral.rs fetches attacker-supplied media URLs (image, audio, video) into server memory with no byte limit, and extracts every frame of a supplied video when num_frames is None. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exhaust server memory, disk space, and CPU by pointing the endpoint at an infinite-streaming HTTP server or a long high-framerate video, causing a complete denial of service. No credentials or special configuration are …