diff --git a/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/http_handler.py b/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/http_handler.py
index 3a6fa5f51da..45be6ad7aa2 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/http_handler.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/http_handler.py
@@ -8,11 +8,14 @@ import sys
 import threading
 import time
 import weakref
-from collections.abc import AsyncIterable, Callable, Iterable, Mapping
+import zlib
+from collections.abc import AsyncGenerator, AsyncIterable, Callable, Iterable, Iterator, Mapping, Sequence
+from contextlib import aclosing
+from dataclasses import dataclass
 from http.cookiejar import CookieJar, DefaultCookiePolicy
 from io import BytesIO
 from types import MappingProxyType
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, ClassVar, Final, NoReturn, Optional, TypeAlias, TypedDict, TypeVar
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, ClassVar, Final, NoReturn, Optional, Protocol, TypeAlias, TypedDict, TypeVar
 
 import certifi
 import httpx
@@ -638,6 +641,15 @@ class HTTPResponseLimitError(ValueError):
     pass
 
 
+class HTTPResponseEncodingError(HTTPResponseLimitError):
+    pass
+
+
+_WIRE_BODY_HEADERS: Final = frozenset({"content-encoding", "content-length"})
+_ENCODED_OVERHEAD_DIVISOR: Final = 4096
+_ENCODED_OVERHEAD_BYTES: Final = 64
+
+
 class MaskedHTTPStatusError(httpx.HTTPStatusError):
     def __init__(self, original_error, message: str | None = None, text: str | None = None):
         # Create a new error with the masked URL
@@ -690,6 +702,223 @@ class MaskedHTTPStatusError(httpx.HTTPStatusError):
         self.status_code = original_error.response.status_code
 
 
+def _headers_of_the_decoded_body(headers: httpx.Headers) -> httpx.Headers:
+    return httpx.Headers(
+        tuple((name, value) for name, value in headers.multi_items() if name not in _WIRE_BODY_HEADERS)
+    )
+
+
+def _encodings_of(headers: httpx.Headers) -> tuple[str, ...]:
+    declared: Final = header_value(headers, "content-encoding")
+    names: Final = tuple(
+        name.strip().lower() for name in ("identity" if declared is None else declared).split(",") if name.strip()
+    )
+    return tuple(name for name in names if name != "identity") or ("identity",)
+
+
+def _encoded_byte_limit(max_bytes: int) -> int:
+    return max_bytes + max_bytes // _ENCODED_OVERHEAD_DIVISOR + _ENCODED_OVERHEAD_BYTES
+
+
+def _wire_byte_limit(headers: httpx.Headers, max_bytes: int) -> int:
+    if _encodings_of(headers) == ("identity",):
+        return max_bytes
+    return _encoded_byte_limit(max_bytes)
+
+
+async def _wire_bounded(response: httpx.Response, limit: int) -> AsyncGenerator[bytes, None]:
+    async for chunk in response.aiter_raw():
+        if response.num_bytes_downloaded > limit:
+            raise HTTPResponseLimitError("Response exceeds the configured size limit")
+        yield chunk
+
+
+def _already_read_within(response: httpx.Response, max_bytes: int) -> httpx.Response:
+    if len(response.content) > max_bytes:
+        raise HTTPResponseLimitError("Response exceeds the configured size limit")
+    return httpx.Response(
+        response.status_code,
+        headers=_headers_of_the_decoded_body(response.headers),
+        content=response.content,
+        request=response.request,
+    )
+
+
+class _BoundedDecoder(Protocol):
+    def decode(self, data: bytes, max_output: int) -> bytes: ...
+
+    def finish(self) -> None:
+        """Raise httpx.DecodingError when the wire ended before the compressed stream did."""
+
+
+class _IdentityDecoder:
+    def decode(self, data: bytes, max_output: int) -> bytes:
+        return data
+
+    def finish(self) -> None:
+        return None
+
+
+class _ZlibDecoder:
+    def __init__(self, wbits: int) -> None:
+        self._inflate = zlib.decompressobj(wbits)
+        self._raw_fallback = wbits == zlib.MAX_WBITS
+
+    def _inflate_once(self, data: bytes, max_output: int) -> bytes:
+        try:
+            return self._inflate.decompress(data, max_output)
+        except zlib.error as zlib_wrapped:
+            if not self._raw_fallback:
+                raise httpx.DecodingError(str(zlib_wrapped)) from zlib_wrapped
+        self._inflate = zlib.decompressobj(-zlib.MAX_WBITS)
+        try:
+            return self._inflate.decompress(data, max_output)
+        except zlib.error as raw_deflate:
+            raise httpx.DecodingError(str(raw_deflate)) from raw_deflate
+
+    def decode(self, data: bytes, max_output: int) -> bytes:
+        def drained() -> Iterator[bytes]:
+            produced = 0  # rebind-ok: running total of the bytes yielded so far
+            pending = data  # rebind-ok: first call feeds the wire bytes, later calls feed the unconsumed tail
+            while produced < max_output and pending:
+                piece: bytes = self._inflate_once(pending, max_output - produced)
+                self._raw_fallback = False
+                produced += len(piece)
+                pending = self._inflate.unconsumed_tail
+                yield piece
+
+        return b"".join(drained())
+
+    def finish(self) -> None:
+        if not self._inflate.eof:
+            raise httpx.DecodingError("Compressed response ended before the end of the stream")
+
+
+class _BrotliInflater(Protocol):
+    def process(self, data: bytes, output_buffer_limit: int) -> bytes: ...
+
+    def is_finished(self) -> bool: ...
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
+class _Brotli:
+    new_inflater: Callable[[], _BrotliInflater]
+    error: type[Exception]
+
+
+def _installed_brotli() -> _Brotli | None:
+    try:
+        from brotli import (  # pyright: ignore[reportMissingTypeStubs, reportUnknownVariableType]  # no stubs
+            Decompressor,
+            error,
+        )
+    except ImportError:
+        return None
+    return _Brotli(new_inflater=Decompressor, error=error)  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownArgumentType]  # brotli has no stubs
+
+
+_BROTLI: Final = _installed_brotli()
+
+
+class _BrotliDecoder:
+    def __init__(self, brotli: _Brotli) -> None:
+        self._inflate: Final = brotli.new_inflater()
+        self._error: Final = brotli.error
+
+    def decode(self, data: bytes, max_output: int) -> bytes:
+        def drained() -> Iterator[bytes]:
+            produced = 0  # rebind-ok: running total of the bytes yielded so far
+            pending = data  # rebind-ok: first call feeds the wire bytes, later calls drain buffered output
+            while produced < max_output:
+                try:
+                    piece: bytes = self._inflate.process(pending, output_buffer_limit=max_output - produced)
+                except self._error as exc:
+                    raise httpx.DecodingError(str(exc)) from exc
+                produced += len(piece)
+                pending = b""
+                yield piece
+                if not piece or self._inflate.is_finished():
+                    return
+
+        return b"".join(drained())
+
+    def finish(self) -> None:
+        if not self._inflate.is_finished():
+            raise httpx.DecodingError("Compressed response ended before the end of the stream")
+
+
+class _CappedStage:
+    """Intermediate stage of a stacked encoding whose total output over the whole response is capped."""
+
+    def __init__(self, stage: _BoundedDecoder, cap: int) -> None:
+        self._stage: Final = stage
+        self._cap: Final = cap
+        self._produced = 0
+
+    def decode(self, data: bytes) -> bytes:
+        allowance: Final = self._cap - self._produced
+        out: Final = self._stage.decode(data, allowance + 1)
+        self._produced += len(out)
+        if len(out) > allowance:
+            raise HTTPResponseLimitError("Response exceeds the configured size limit")
+        return out
+
+    def finish(self) -> None:
+        self._stage.finish()
+
+
+class _ChainedDecoder:
+    """Undo stacked Content-Encoding values, last applied first, bounding every intermediate stage."""
+
+    def __init__(self, stages: Sequence[_BoundedDecoder], max_output: int) -> None:
+        *outer, last = stages
+        cap: Final = _encoded_byte_limit(max_output)
+        self._outer: Final = tuple(_CappedStage(stage, cap) for stage in outer)
+        self._last: Final = last
+
+    def decode(self, data: bytes, max_output: int) -> bytes:
+        passed = data  # rebind-ok: each stage's output feeds the next stage
+        for stage in self._outer:
+            passed = stage.decode(passed)
+        return self._last.decode(passed, max_output)
+
+    def finish(self) -> None:
+        for stage in self._outer:
+            stage.finish()
+        self._last.finish()
+
+
+def _bounded_decoder(headers: httpx.Headers, max_bytes: int) -> _BoundedDecoder:
+    brotli: Final = _BROTLI
+    factories: Final[Mapping[str, Callable[[], _BoundedDecoder]]] = MappingProxyType(
+        {
+            "identity": _IdentityDecoder,
+            "gzip": lambda: _ZlibDecoder(zlib.MAX_WBITS | 16),
+            "x-gzip": lambda: _ZlibDecoder(zlib.MAX_WBITS | 16),
+            "deflate": lambda: _ZlibDecoder(zlib.MAX_WBITS),
+            **({} if brotli is None else {"br": lambda: _BrotliDecoder(brotli)}),
+        }
+    )
+    encodings: Final = _encodings_of(headers)
+    if any(name not in factories for name in encodings):
+        raise HTTPResponseEncodingError(
+            "Response size limits require an identity, gzip, deflate, or br encoded response"
+        )
+    stages: Final = tuple(factories[name]() for name in reversed(encodings))
+    return stages[0] if len(stages) == 1 else _ChainedDecoder(stages, max_bytes)
+
+
+async def _decoded_within(response: httpx.Response, wire: AsyncGenerator[bytes, None], max_bytes: int) -> bytes:
+    decoder: Final = _bounded_decoder(response.headers, max_bytes)
+    with BytesIO() as body:
+        async for chunk in wire:
+            body.write(decoder.decode(chunk, max_bytes + 1 - body.tell()))
+            if body.tell() > max_bytes:
+                raise HTTPResponseLimitError("Response exceeds the configured size limit")
+        decoder.finish()
+        return body.getvalue()
+
+
 class AsyncHTTPHandler:
     def __init__(
         self,
@@ -913,19 +1142,18 @@ class AsyncHTTPHandler:
                 )
             if response.is_redirect or response.is_error:
                 return httpx.Response(response.status_code, headers=response.headers, request=response.request)
-            content_encoding: Final = header_value(response.headers, "content-encoding")
-            if ("identity" if content_encoding is None else content_encoding).lower() != "identity":
-                raise HTTPResponseLimitError("Response size limits require an uncompressed response")
+            if response.is_stream_consumed:
+                return _already_read_within(response, max_bytes)
+            wire_limit: Final = _wire_byte_limit(response.headers, max_bytes)
             content_length: Final = header_value(response.headers, "content-length")
-            if int("0" if content_length is None else content_length) > max_bytes:
+            if int("0" if content_length is None else content_length) > wire_limit:
                 raise HTTPResponseLimitError("Response exceeds the configured size limit")
-            with BytesIO() as body:
-                async for chunk in response.aiter_bytes(chunk_size=65536):
-                    if body.tell() + len(chunk) > max_bytes:
-                        raise HTTPResponseLimitError("Response exceeds the configured size limit")
-                    body.write(chunk)
+            async with aclosing(_wire_bounded(response, wire_limit)) as wire:
                 return httpx.Response(
-                    response.status_code, headers=response.headers, content=body.getvalue(), request=response.request
+                    response.status_code,
+                    headers=_headers_of_the_decoded_body(response.headers),
+                    content=await _decoded_within(response, wire, max_bytes),
+                    request=response.request,
                 )
         finally:
             await response.aclose()
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/_types.py b/litellm/proxy/_types.py
index d3ac264518e..7f5c60fb504 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/_types.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/_types.py
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ from litellm.types.proxy.carried_budget_state import (
     UserBudgetSnapshot as UserBudgetSnapshot,  # noqa: PLC0414  # public re-export
 )
 from litellm.types.proxy.control_plane_endpoints import WorkerRegistryEntry
+from litellm.types.proxy.rag_ingest import RagIngestSettings
 from litellm.types.proxy.request_tag_mappings import RequestTagMapping
 from litellm.types.proxy.skill_scanning import SkillScannerConfig
 from litellm.types.proxy.spend_capture_rate import SpendCaptureRateCheckSettings
@@ -2662,6 +2663,15 @@ class ConfigGeneralSettings(LiteLLMPydanticObjectBase):
         None,
         description="override user_api_key_auth with your own auth script - https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/proxy/virtual_keys#custom-auth",
     )
+    rag_ingest: RagIngestSettings | None = Field(
+        None,
+        description=(
+            "controls run on every upload that lands in a vector store (/v1/rag/ingest and /v1/files with purpose "
+            "assistants or user_data); rag_ingest.malware_scanner names the scanner instance as <module>.<instance> "
+            "the way custom_auth does, and unset runs the EICAR test scanner; rag_ingest.files_api_controls: false lets "
+            "the /v1/files uploads through unchecked - https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/rag_ingest"
+        ),
+    )
     max_parallel_requests: int | None = Field(
         None,
         description="maximum parallel requests for each api key",
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/openai_files_endpoints/files_endpoints.py b/litellm/proxy/openai_files_endpoints/files_endpoints.py
index e613d744fb0..0c78242129a 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/openai_files_endpoints/files_endpoints.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/openai_files_endpoints/files_endpoints.py
@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@ from litellm.proxy.openai_files_endpoints.general_upload_validation import (
     coerce_optional_str_list_setting,
     raise_upload_validation_failure,
 )
+from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.upload_security import (
+    MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES,
+    MalwareScanner,
+    RejectedUpload,
+    validate_upload,
+)
 from litellm.proxy.utils import PrismaClient, ProxyLogging, is_known_model
 from litellm.repositories.managed_file_repository import ManagedFileRepository
 from litellm.router import Router
@@ -117,6 +123,7 @@ from litellm.types.llms.openai import (
     OpenAIFilesPurpose,
 )
 from litellm.types.proxy.auth.user_api_key_auth import user_api_key_has_admin_view
+from litellm.types.proxy.rag_ingest import RagIngestSettings
 from litellm.types.router import Deployment
 from litellm.types.utils import LlmProviders
 
@@ -542,6 +549,45 @@ async def route_create_file(
     return response
 
 
+_VECTOR_STORE_UPLOAD_PURPOSES: Final[frozenset[str]] = frozenset({"assistants", "user_data"})
+
+
+def _vector_store_upload_controls_apply(purpose: str, settings: RagIngestSettings) -> bool:
+    return purpose in _VECTOR_STORE_UPLOAD_PURPOSES and settings.files_api_controls
+
+
+def _upload_read_limit_bytes(max_file_size_mb: int | None, controls_apply: bool) -> int | None:
+    control_limit: Final = MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES + 1 if controls_apply else None
+    if max_file_size_mb is None or max_file_size_mb <= 0:
+        return control_limit
+    admin_limit: Final = max_file_size_mb * MB + 1
+    return admin_limit if control_limit is None else min(admin_limit, control_limit)
+
+
+def _in_memory_upload(file_source: bytes | BinaryIO) -> bytes:
+    if isinstance(file_source, bytes):
+        return file_source
+    raise ProxyException(
+        message="Uploads with purpose assistants or user_data must be read into memory before the upload controls run.",
+        type=ProxyErrorTypes.internal_server_error.value,
+        param="file",
+        code=500,
+    )
+
+
+async def _reject_unsafe_vector_store_upload(content: bytes, scanner: MalwareScanner) -> None:
+    validation: Final = await asyncio.to_thread(
+        validate_upload, content=content, scanner=scanner, max_size_bytes=MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES
+    )
+    if isinstance(validation, RejectedUpload):
+        raise ProxyException(
+            message=f"{validation.message} Rejection reason: {validation.reason.value}.",
+            type="invalid_request_error",
+            param="file",
+            code=400,
+        )
+
+
 @router.post(
     "/{provider}/v1/files",
     dependencies=[Depends(user_api_key_auth)],
@@ -596,6 +642,7 @@ async def create_file(
         version,
     )
 
+    rag_ingest_controls: Final = proxy_config.rag_ingest_controls
     data: dict = {}
     # Spools this request owns. Starlette owns the upload handle; anything the guardrail scan
     # opens is ours, and a batch upload that fails after the scan would otherwise hold the
@@ -607,18 +654,21 @@ async def create_file(
             raise_upload_validation_failure(unsafe_filename_failure)
 
         max_file_size_mb: Final = coerce_optional_int_setting(general_settings.get("max_file_size_mb"))
+        controls_apply: Final = _vector_store_upload_controls_apply(purpose, rag_ingest_controls.settings)
+        read_limit_bytes: Final = _upload_read_limit_bytes(max_file_size_mb, controls_apply)
 
         # Batch uploads can be gigabytes. Starlette has already spooled the upload
         # to disk, so stream from that handle instead of reading it into memory.
-        # Other uploads stay in-memory bytes, bounded to max_file_size_mb (plus one
-        # byte, to still tell "exactly at the limit" from "over it") when it is set,
-        # so an oversized upload cannot be read to completion before it is rejected.
+        # Other uploads stay in-memory bytes, bounded to the smaller of max_file_size_mb
+        # and the vector store cap (plus one byte, to still tell "exactly at the limit"
+        # from "over it") when either applies, so an oversized upload cannot be read to
+        # completion before it is rejected.
         file_source: bytes | BinaryIO
         if purpose == "batch":
             await file.seek(0)
             file_source = file.file
-        elif max_file_size_mb is not None and max_file_size_mb > 0:
-            file_source = await file.read(max_file_size_mb * MB + 1)
+        elif read_limit_bytes is not None:
+            file_source = await file.read(read_limit_bytes)
         else:
             file_source = await file.read()
         custom_llm_provider = (
@@ -671,6 +721,9 @@ async def create_file(
         if blocked_extension_failure is not None:
             raise_upload_validation_failure(blocked_extension_failure)
 
+        if controls_apply:
+            await _reject_unsafe_vector_store_upload(_in_memory_upload(file_source), rag_ingest_controls.scanner)
+
         if passthrough:
             _validate_passthrough_upload(
                 purpose=purpose,
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
index c1af5d6f980..3a4ee321783 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
@@ -950,6 +950,11 @@ from litellm.proxy.prometheus_cleanup import mark_dead_workers, mark_worker_exit
 from litellm.proxy.public_endpoints import router as public_endpoints_router
 from litellm.proxy.public_endpoints.public_v1 import router as public_v1_router
 from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints import router as rag_router
+from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.upload_security import (
+    RagIngestConfigError,
+    RagIngestControls,
+    load_rag_ingest_controls,
+)
 from litellm.proxy.rerank_endpoints.endpoints import router as rerank_router
 from litellm.proxy.response_api_endpoints.endpoints import router as response_router
 from litellm.proxy.route_llm_request import route_request
@@ -5175,6 +5180,14 @@ _DB_OVERLAY_REMOTE_MODULE_LIST_FIELDS: Final[dict[str, tuple[str, ...]]] = {
         "audit_log_callbacks",
     ),
 }
+_DB_OVERLAY_REMOTE_MODULE_NESTED_STR_FIELDS: Final[Mapping[str, tuple[tuple[str, str], ...]]] = MappingProxyType(
+    {
+        "general_settings": (
+            ("litellm_jwtauth", "custom_validate"),
+            ("rag_ingest", "malware_scanner"),
+        ),
+    }
+)
 
 
 def _is_remote_module_url(value: object) -> bool:
@@ -5281,16 +5294,17 @@ def _scrub_db_overlay_remote_module_loads(section: str, db_value: object) -> obj
                 if isinstance(lp, dict):
                     _scrub_guardrail_inner(lp)
 
-    # ``general_settings.litellm_jwtauth.custom_validate`` is a nested
-    # string field.
-    if section == "general_settings":
-        jwt: Final = sanitized.get("litellm_jwtauth")
-        if isinstance(jwt, dict) and _is_remote_module_url(jwt.get("custom_validate")):
+    for parent, nested_field in _DB_OVERLAY_REMOTE_MODULE_NESTED_STR_FIELDS.get(section, ()):
+        if isinstance(nested := sanitized.get(parent), dict) and _is_remote_module_url(nested.get(nested_field)):
             verbose_proxy_logger.warning(
-                "Refused remote-URL custom_validate from DB-overlay general_settings.litellm_jwtauth: %r",
-                jwt.get("custom_validate"),
+                "Refused remote-URL %s from DB-overlay %s.%s: %r",
+                nested_field,
+                section,
+                parent,
+                nested.get(nested_field),
             )
-            jwt["custom_validate"] = None
+            nested[nested_field] = None
+    if section == "general_settings":
         # ``pass_through_endpoints`` is a list of dicts whose ``target``
         # is passed through ``create_pass_through_route`` →
         # ``get_instance_fn``. A DB-overlay ``target: "s3://attacker/m.i"``
@@ -5941,6 +5955,7 @@ class ProxyConfig:
 
     def __init__(self) -> None:
         self.config: Mapping[str, object] = MappingProxyType({})
+        self.rag_ingest_controls: RagIngestControls = RagIngestControls()
         self.auto_router_db_catalog: tuple[AutoRouterCatalogEntry, ...] | None = None
         self._last_semantic_filter_config: dict[str, object] | None = None
         self._last_websearch_interception_config: dict[str, object] | None = None
@@ -7249,6 +7264,16 @@ class ProxyConfig:
 
             TypeAdapter(MCPDisabledCapabilities).validate_python(disabled_mcp_capabilities)
 
+        match load_rag_ingest_controls(
+            typed_general_settings.get("rag_ingest"),
+            config_file_path=config_file_path,
+            load_instance=get_instance_fn,
+        ):
+            case RagIngestConfigError(message=message):
+                raise ValueError(message)
+            case RagIngestControls() as rag_ingest_controls:
+                self.rag_ingest_controls = rag_ingest_controls
+
         if os.getenv("NUM_WORKERS", "1") != "1" and redis_usage_cache is None:
             warn_login_counters_are_per_worker(os.getenv("NUM_WORKERS", "1"))
         if declared_proxy_ranges(general_settings) is None:
@@ -7372,7 +7397,6 @@ class ProxyConfig:
                 custom_auth_configured=custom_auth is not None,
                 run_common_checks=bool(general_settings.get("custom_auth_run_common_checks", False)),
             )
-
             log_once_if_budget_reservation_disabled(
                 disabled=general_settings.get("disable_budget_reservation") is True,
             )
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/rag_endpoints/endpoints.py b/litellm/proxy/rag_endpoints/endpoints.py
index 2d81dc32181..1c0e24826c0 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/rag_endpoints/endpoints.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/rag_endpoints/endpoints.py
@@ -6,12 +6,14 @@ Provides:
 - /rag/query: RAG query pipeline (Search -> Rerank -> LLM Completion)
 """
 
+import asyncio
 import base64
 import json
-from collections.abc import Mapping
+from collections.abc import Awaitable, Callable, Mapping
 from types import MappingProxyType
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Final
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Final, TypeAlias
 
+import httpx
 import orjson
 from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, HTTPException, Request, Response
 from fastapi.responses import ORJSONResponse, StreamingResponse
@@ -24,6 +26,12 @@ from litellm.constants import DEFAULT_MAX_RECURSE_DEPTH
 from litellm.integrations.vector_store_integrations.vector_store_pre_call_hook import (
     LiteLLM_ManagedVectorStore,
 )
+from litellm.litellm_core_utils.url_utils import async_safe_get
+from litellm.llms.custom_httpx.http_handler import (
+    HTTPResponseEncodingError,
+    HTTPResponseLimitError,
+    get_async_httpx_client,
+)
 from litellm.proxy._types import *
 from litellm.proxy.auth.auth_utils import is_request_body_safe
 from litellm.proxy.auth.user_api_key_auth import UserAPIKeyAuth, user_api_key_auth
@@ -46,9 +54,9 @@ from litellm.proxy.openai_files_endpoints.common_utils import (
 )
 from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.upload_security import (
     MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES,
-    EicarTestMalwareScanner,
     MalwareScanner,
     RejectedUpload,
+    RejectionReason,
     validate_upload,
 )
 from litellm.proxy.vector_store_endpoints.endpoints import (
@@ -61,6 +69,7 @@ from litellm.proxy.vector_store_endpoints.utils import (
 )
 from litellm.rag.main import get_ingestion_class
 from litellm.repositories.table_repositories import ManagedVectorStoresRepository
+from litellm.types.llms.custom_http import httpxSpecialProvider
 from litellm.types.utils import ModelResponse
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -471,17 +480,60 @@ async def _save_vector_store_to_db_from_rag_ingest(
         verbose_proxy_logger.exception("Failed to save vector store %s to database: %s", vector_store_id, db_error)
 
 
-def _secure_uploaded_file(
-    file_data: tuple[str, bytes, str],
-    scanner: MalwareScanner,
-) -> tuple[str, bytes, str]:
-    validation: Final = validate_upload(content=file_data[1], scanner=scanner)
+async def _secure_uploaded_file(content: bytes, scanner: MalwareScanner) -> tuple[str, bytes, str]:
+    validation: Final = await asyncio.to_thread(validate_upload, content=content, scanner=scanner)
     if isinstance(validation, RejectedUpload):
         raise HTTPException(
             status_code=400,
             detail={"error": validation.message, "reason": validation.reason.value},
         )
-    return validation.safe_filename, file_data[1], validation.content_type
+    return validation.safe_filename, content, validation.content_type
+
+
+UrlFetcher: TypeAlias = Callable[[str], Awaitable[httpx.Response]]
+
+_FILE_URL_FETCH_TIMEOUT: Final = httpx.Timeout(connect=10.0, read=60.0, write=10.0, pool=10.0)
+
+
+async def fetch_file_url(url: str) -> httpx.Response:
+    client: Final = get_async_httpx_client(llm_provider=httpxSpecialProvider.RAG)
+    return await async_safe_get(client, url, timeout=_FILE_URL_FETCH_TIMEOUT, max_response_bytes=MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES)
+
+
+async def _download_file_url(file_url: str, fetch_url: UrlFetcher) -> bytes:
+    try:
+        response: Final = await fetch_url(file_url)
+    except HTTPResponseEncodingError as e:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail={"error": f"Could not fetch file_url: {e}"}) from e
+    except HTTPResponseLimitError as e:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=400,
+            detail={"error": f"Could not fetch file_url: {e}", "reason": RejectionReason.FILE_TOO_LARGE.value},
+        ) from e
+    except (ValueError, httpx.HTTPError) as e:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail={"error": f"Could not fetch file_url: {e}"}) from e
+    if not response.is_success:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=400,
+            detail={"error": f"Could not fetch file_url: the server answered HTTP {response.status_code}"},
+        )
+    return response.content
+
+
+async def fetch_and_secure_file_url(
+    file_url: str,
+    *,
+    scanner: MalwareScanner,
+    fetch_url: UrlFetcher,
+) -> tuple[str, bytes, str]:
+    return await _secure_uploaded_file(await _download_file_url(file_url, fetch_url), scanner)
+
+
+def _optional_str_field(body: Mapping[str, object], name: str) -> str | None:
+    value: Final = body.get(name)
+    if value is None or isinstance(value, str):
+        return value
+    raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail={"error": f"'{name}' must be a string"})
 
 
 async def parse_rag_ingest_request(
@@ -498,7 +550,9 @@ async def parse_rag_ingest_request(
     Uploaded file bytes are validated against the vector-store upload controls
     (size limit, format allowlist with content inspection, archive rejection,
     and the injected malware scanner) and given a server-generated filename
-    before they are returned.
+    before they are returned. A ``file_url`` is returned as given; the route
+    fetches it through :func:`fetch_and_secure_file_url` once the rest of the
+    request has been validated.
 
     Returns:
         Tuple of (ingest_options, file_data, file_url, file_id)
@@ -526,15 +580,15 @@ async def parse_rag_ingest_request(
         if request_json_str:
             request_data: Final = orjson.loads(request_json_str)
             ingest_options = request_data.get("ingest_options", {})
-            file_url = request_data.get("file_url")
-            file_id = request_data.get("file_id")
+            file_url = _optional_str_field(request_data, "file_url")  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownArgumentType]  # orjson.loads is untyped
+            file_id = _optional_str_field(request_data, "file_id")  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownArgumentType]  # orjson.loads is untyped
 
     else:
         # JSON body
         data: Final = await read_request_body(request)
         ingest_options = data.get("ingest_options", {})
-        file_url = data.get("file_url")
-        file_id = data.get("file_id")
+        file_url = _optional_str_field(data, "file_url")  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownArgumentType]  # read_request_body returns a bare dict
+        file_id = _optional_str_field(data, "file_id")  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownArgumentType]  # read_request_body returns a bare dict
 
         # Handle base64-encoded file in JSON body
         file_obj = data.get("file")
@@ -560,10 +614,6 @@ async def parse_rag_ingest_request(
             detail={"error": "Must provide file, file_url, or file_id"},
         )
 
-    secured_file_data: Final[tuple[str, bytes, str] | None] = (
-        _secure_uploaded_file(file_data, scanner) if file_data is not None else None
-    )
-
     if "vector_store" not in ingest_options:
         raise HTTPException(
             status_code=400,
@@ -605,6 +655,8 @@ async def parse_rag_ingest_request(
                     },
                 )
 
+    secured_file_data: Final = await _secure_uploaded_file(file_data[1], scanner) if file_data is not None else None
+
     return ingest_options, secured_file_data, file_url, file_id
 
 
@@ -666,11 +718,10 @@ async def rag_ingest(
         version,
     )
 
+    scanner: Final = proxy_config.rag_ingest_controls.scanner
     try:
         # Parse request
-        ingest_options, file_data, file_url, file_id = await parse_rag_ingest_request(
-            request, scanner=EicarTestMalwareScanner()
-        )
+        ingest_options, file_data, file_url, file_id = await parse_rag_ingest_request(request, scanner=scanner)
 
         resolved_stores: Final = await _authorize_nested_vector_store_ids(
             payload=ingest_options,
@@ -721,6 +772,12 @@ async def rag_ingest(
                 detail={"error": provider_error},
             )
 
+        uploaded_file_data: Final = (
+            await fetch_and_secure_file_url(file_url, scanner=scanner, fetch_url=fetch_file_url)
+            if file_data is None and file_url is not None
+            else file_data
+        )
+
         verbose_proxy_logger.debug(
             "RAG Ingest - options: %s, custom_llm_provider: %s",
             ingest_options,
@@ -730,8 +787,7 @@ async def rag_ingest(
         # Call ingest
         response: Final = await litellm.aingest(
             ingest_options=merged_ingest_options,
-            file_data=file_data,
-            file_url=file_url,
+            file_data=uploaded_file_data,
             file_id=file_id,
             router=llm_router,
             **request_data,
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/rag_endpoints/upload_security.py b/litellm/proxy/rag_endpoints/upload_security.py
index f0318f2f709..8a34a876a48 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/rag_endpoints/upload_security.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/rag_endpoints/upload_security.py
@@ -11,16 +11,21 @@ server-generated filename so the client-controlled name never reaches storage.
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import uuid
-from collections.abc import Mapping
-from dataclasses import dataclass
+from collections.abc import Callable, Mapping
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from enum import Enum
 from types import MappingProxyType
 from typing import Final, Protocol, TypeAlias, runtime_checkable
 
+from pydantic import ValidationError
 from typing_extensions import assert_never
 
+from litellm.types.proxy.rag_ingest import RagIngestSettings
+
 MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES: Final = 512 * 1024 * 1024
 
+MALWARE_SCANNER_OPTION: Final = "general_settings.rag_ingest.malware_scanner"
+
 EICAR_TEST_SIGNATURE: Final = b"X5O!P%@AP[4\\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*"
 
 _ARCHIVE_MAGIC_PREFIXES: Final[tuple[bytes, ...]] = (
@@ -91,6 +96,13 @@ class ScanResult:
 
 @runtime_checkable
 class MalwareScanner(Protocol):
+    """One shared instance scans every upload, from worker threads running at the same time.
+
+    ``scan`` must therefore be safe to call concurrently and must return
+    :class:`ScanResult` with the ``error`` verdict instead of raising when the
+    engine is unavailable.
+    """
+
     def scan(self, content: bytes) -> ScanResult: ...
 
 
@@ -110,6 +122,69 @@ class EicarTestMalwareScanner:
         return ScanResult(verdict=ScanVerdict.CLEAN)
 
 
+@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
+class RagIngestConfigError:
+    message: str
+
+
+InstanceLoader: TypeAlias = Callable[[str, str | None], object]
+
+
+def parse_rag_ingest_settings(rag_ingest: object) -> RagIngestSettings | RagIngestConfigError:
+    if rag_ingest is None:
+        return RagIngestSettings()
+    try:
+        return RagIngestSettings.model_validate(rag_ingest)
+    except ValidationError as e:
+        return RagIngestConfigError(f"general_settings.rag_ingest is invalid: {e}")
+
+
+def resolve_malware_scanner(
+    settings: RagIngestSettings,
+    *,
+    config_file_path: str | None,
+    load_instance: InstanceLoader,
+) -> MalwareScanner | RagIngestConfigError:
+    if settings.malware_scanner is None:
+        return EicarTestMalwareScanner()
+    try:
+        loaded: Final = load_instance(settings.malware_scanner, config_file_path)
+    except Exception as e:  # noqa: BLE001  # importing the operator's scanner module can raise anything
+        return RagIngestConfigError(f"{MALWARE_SCANNER_OPTION}={settings.malware_scanner!r} could not be loaded: {e}")
+    if isinstance(loaded, type):
+        return RagIngestConfigError(
+            f"{MALWARE_SCANNER_OPTION}={settings.malware_scanner!r} names the class {loaded.__qualname__}; "
+            "name an instance of it instead"
+        )
+    if isinstance(loaded, MalwareScanner) and callable(loaded.scan):
+        return loaded
+    return RagIngestConfigError(
+        f"{MALWARE_SCANNER_OPTION}={settings.malware_scanner!r} resolved to a {type(loaded).__qualname__}, "
+        "which has no scan(content: bytes) -> ScanResult method"
+    )
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
+class RagIngestControls:
+    settings: RagIngestSettings = field(default_factory=RagIngestSettings)
+    scanner: MalwareScanner = field(default_factory=EicarTestMalwareScanner)
+
+
+def load_rag_ingest_controls(
+    rag_ingest: object,
+    *,
+    config_file_path: str | None,
+    load_instance: InstanceLoader,
+) -> RagIngestControls | RagIngestConfigError:
+    settings: Final = parse_rag_ingest_settings(rag_ingest)
+    if isinstance(settings, RagIngestConfigError):
+        return settings
+    scanner: Final = resolve_malware_scanner(settings, config_file_path=config_file_path, load_instance=load_instance)
+    if isinstance(scanner, RagIngestConfigError):
+        return scanner
+    return RagIngestControls(settings=settings, scanner=scanner)
+
+
 @dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
 class AllowedContent:
     format: DetectedFormat
diff --git a/litellm/types/proxy/rag_ingest.py b/litellm/types/proxy/rag_ingest.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..01ebf070bf6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/litellm/types/proxy/rag_ingest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+"""``general_settings.rag_ingest``: the controls run on bytes before they land in a vector store."""
+
+from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, Field
+
+
+class RagIngestSettings(BaseModel):
+    model_config = ConfigDict(frozen=True, extra="forbid")
+
+    malware_scanner: str | None = Field(
+        default=None,
+        description=(
+            "The scanner every vector-store upload goes through, as <module>.<instance> where the module sits "
+            "next to config.yaml or is importable, resolved the way custom_auth is. The instance must expose "
+            "scan(content: bytes) -> ScanResult and be safe to call from several threads at once. Unset runs "
+            "the EICAR test scanner, which flags only the EICAR test file"
+        ),
+    )
+    files_api_controls: bool = Field(
+        default=True,
+        description=(
+            "Whether /v1/files uploads with purpose assistants or user_data run the upload controls (format, size "
+            "and malware checks) before reaching the provider. false lets those uploads through unchecked, for a "
+            "deployment that sends the provider a format the controls reject on that route, such as DOCX or "
+            "images. /v1/rag/ingest runs the controls whatever this is set to"
+        ),
+    )
diff --git a/tests/unit/llms/custom_httpx/test_http_handler.py b/tests/unit/llms/custom_httpx/test_http_handler.py
index 3e583bf8dff..8a535184b78 100644
--- a/tests/unit/llms/custom_httpx/test_http_handler.py
+++ b/tests/unit/llms/custom_httpx/test_http_handler.py
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 import asyncio, importlib, json, time
 import gc
+import gzip
 import io
 import logging
 import os
 import pathlib
 import ssl
 import threading
+import tracemalloc
 import weakref
+import zlib
 from collections.abc import AsyncIterator, Callable, Mapping
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
@@ -30,6 +33,7 @@ from litellm.llms.custom_httpx.http_handler import (
     _CLIENT_REFCOUNT_WHEN_HANDLER_IS_SOLE_REFERRER,
     AsyncHTTPHandler,
     HTTPHandler,
+    HTTPResponseLimitError,
     MaskedHTTPStatusError,
     get_httpx_client,
     get_shared_realtime_ssl_context,
@@ -1935,6 +1939,266 @@ async def test_bounded_get_stops_redirect_loops(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
     assert route.call_count == 11
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bounded_get_decodes_a_compressed_body_and_reports_the_decoded_length(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    document = b"benign document text\n" * 40
+    compressed = gzip.compress(document)
+    respx_mock.get("https://cdn.example/notes.txt").respond(
+        200, content=compressed, headers={"content-encoding": "gzip", "content-length": str(len(compressed))}
+    )
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    try:
+        response = await handler.get("https://cdn.example/notes.txt", max_response_bytes=len(document))
+    finally:
+        await handler.close()
+    assert response.content == document
+    assert "content-encoding" not in response.headers
+    assert response.headers["content-length"] == str(len(document))
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bounded_get_reads_a_compressed_body_whose_wire_length_exceeds_the_cap(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    document = bytes(range(256))
+    compressed = gzip.compress(document)
+    assert len(compressed) > len(document)
+    respx_mock.get("https://cdn.example/blob.bin").respond(
+        200, content=compressed, headers={"content-encoding": "gzip", "content-length": str(len(compressed))}
+    )
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    try:
+        response = await handler.get("https://cdn.example/blob.bin", max_response_bytes=len(document))
+    finally:
+        await handler.close()
+    assert response.content == document
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bounded_get_caps_the_decoded_size_of_a_compressed_body(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    compressed = gzip.compress(b"0" * 200_000)
+    assert len(compressed) < 50_000
+    respx_mock.get("https://cdn.example/bomb.txt").respond(
+        200, content=compressed, headers={"content-encoding": "gzip", "content-length": str(len(compressed))}
+    )
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    try:
+        with pytest.raises(HTTPResponseLimitError, match="size limit"):
+            await handler.get("https://cdn.example/bomb.txt", max_response_bytes=50_000)
+    finally:
+        await handler.close()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bounded_get_caps_the_wire_bytes_of_a_compressed_body_that_decodes_to_nothing(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    padded = gzip.compress(b"hello") + b"\x00" * 100_000
+    respx_mock.get("https://cdn.example/padded.txt").respond(200, content=padded, headers={"content-encoding": "gzip"})
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    try:
+        with pytest.raises(HTTPResponseLimitError, match="size limit"):
+            await handler.get("https://cdn.example/padded.txt", max_response_bytes=1024)
+    finally:
+        await handler.close()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bounded_get_serves_a_body_the_transport_already_read(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    card: Final = {"data": [{"id": "served", "max_model_len": 8192}]}
+
+    def respond(request: httpx.Request) -> httpx.Response:
+        return httpx.Response(200, json=card)
+
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    handler.client = httpx.AsyncClient(transport=httpx.MockTransport(respond))
+    try:
+        response = await handler.get("https://one.test/v1/models", max_response_bytes=2 * 1024 * 1024)
+    finally:
+        await handler.close()
+    assert response.json() == card
+    assert response.headers["content-length"] == str(len(response.content))
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bounded_get_bounds_an_already_read_body_on_its_decoded_length(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    document: Final = b"0" * 4096
+
+    def respond(request: httpx.Request) -> httpx.Response:
+        return httpx.Response(200, content=gzip.compress(document), headers={"content-encoding": "gzip"})
+
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    handler.client = httpx.AsyncClient(transport=httpx.MockTransport(respond))
+    try:
+        served = await handler.get("https://cdn.example/notes.txt", max_response_bytes=len(document))
+        assert served.content == document
+        assert "content-encoding" not in served.headers
+        assert served.headers["content-length"] == str(len(document))
+        with pytest.raises(HTTPResponseLimitError, match="size limit"):
+            await handler.get("https://cdn.example/notes.txt", max_response_bytes=len(document) - 1)
+    finally:
+        await handler.close()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("encoding", "compress"),
+    [("gzip", gzip.compress), ("deflate", zlib.compress), ("br", None)],
+)
+async def test_bounded_get_never_inflates_a_compressed_body_past_the_cap(
+    respx_mock, monkeypatch, encoding: str, compress: Callable[[bytes], bytes] | None
+):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    inflated: Final = 64 * 1024 * 1024
+    cap: Final = 1024 * 1024
+    bomb: Final = (compress or pytest.importorskip("brotli").compress)(b"\0" * inflated)
+    assert len(bomb) < cap
+
+    class WireStream(httpx.AsyncByteStream):
+        async def __aiter__(self):
+            yield bomb
+
+    respx_mock.get("https://cdn.example/bomb").respond(200, stream=WireStream(), headers={"content-encoding": encoding})
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    tracemalloc.start()
+    try:
+        with pytest.raises(HTTPResponseLimitError, match="size limit"):
+            await handler.get("https://cdn.example/bomb", max_response_bytes=cap)
+        _, peak = tracemalloc.get_traced_memory()
+    finally:
+        tracemalloc.stop()
+        await handler.close()
+    assert peak < 4 * cap, f"decoder materialized {peak} bytes for a {cap} byte cap"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("encoding", "compress"),
+    [("gzip", gzip.compress), ("deflate", zlib.compress), ("br", None)],
+)
+async def test_bounded_get_decodes_a_compressed_body_under_the_cap_and_rejects_a_truncated_one(
+    respx_mock, monkeypatch, encoding: str, compress: Callable[[bytes], bytes] | None
+):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    document: Final = b"line %d of the notes\n" * 2000 % tuple(range(2000))
+    wire: Final = (compress or pytest.importorskip("brotli").compress)(document)
+    for name, body in (("whole", wire), ("cut", wire[: len(wire) // 2])):
+        respx_mock.get(f"https://cdn.example/{name}").respond(200, content=body, headers={"content-encoding": encoding})
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    try:
+        served = await handler.get("https://cdn.example/whole", max_response_bytes=len(document))
+        assert served.content == document
+        with pytest.raises(httpx.DecodingError, match="ended before the end of the stream"):
+            await handler.get("https://cdn.example/cut", max_response_bytes=len(document))
+    finally:
+        await handler.close()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bounded_get_undoes_stacked_encodings_and_still_caps_the_decoded_size(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    document: Final = b"line %d of the notes\n" * 2000 % tuple(range(2000))
+    stacked: Final = zlib.compress(gzip.compress(document))
+    bomb: Final = gzip.compress(gzip.compress(b"\0" * (64 * 1024 * 1024)))
+    assert len(bomb) < 1024
+
+    class WireStream(httpx.AsyncByteStream):
+        def __init__(self, body: bytes) -> None:
+            self.body: Final = body
+
+        async def __aiter__(self):
+            yield self.body
+
+    for name, body, encoding in (("doc", stacked, "gzip, deflate"), ("bomb", bomb, "gzip, gzip")):
+        respx_mock.get(f"https://cdn.example/{name}").respond(
+            200, stream=WireStream(body), headers={"content-encoding": encoding}
+        )
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    tracemalloc.start()
+    try:
+        served = await handler.get("https://cdn.example/doc", max_response_bytes=len(document))
+        assert served.content == document
+        with pytest.raises(HTTPResponseLimitError, match="size limit"):
+            await handler.get("https://cdn.example/bomb", max_response_bytes=1024 * 1024)
+        _, peak = tracemalloc.get_traced_memory()
+    finally:
+        tracemalloc.stop()
+        await handler.close()
+    assert peak < 4 * 1024 * 1024, f"stacked decoder materialized {peak} bytes for a 1 MiB cap"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bounded_get_counts_stacked_intermediate_bytes_across_wire_chunks(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    cap: Final = 1024 * 1024
+    outer: Final = zlib.compressobj(wbits=zlib.MAX_WBITS | 16)
+    empty_stored_block: Final = b"\x00\x00\x00\xff\xff"
+    hollow: Final = zlib.compress(b"")[:2] + empty_stored_block * (8 * 180 * 1024) + zlib.compress(b"")[2:]
+    assert zlib.decompress(hollow) == b""
+    segment: Final = len(hollow) // 8 + 1
+    assert segment < cap < len(hollow)
+    wire_chunks: Final = tuple(
+        outer.compress(hollow[start : start + segment]) + outer.flush(zlib.Z_SYNC_FLUSH)
+        for start in range(0, len(hollow), segment)
+    ) + (outer.flush(),)
+
+    class WireStream(httpx.AsyncByteStream):
+        async def __aiter__(self):
+            for chunk in wire_chunks:
+                yield chunk
+
+    respx_mock.get("https://cdn.example/hollow").respond(
+        200, stream=WireStream(), headers={"content-encoding": "deflate, gzip"}
+    )
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    try:
+        with pytest.raises(HTTPResponseLimitError, match="size limit"):
+            await handler.get("https://cdn.example/hollow", max_response_bytes=cap)
+    finally:
+        await handler.close()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bounded_get_refuses_an_encoding_it_cannot_decode_under_the_cap(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+
+    class WireStream(httpx.AsyncByteStream):
+        async def __aiter__(self):
+            yield b"\x28\xb5\x2f\xfd"
+
+    respx_mock.get("https://cdn.example/zst").respond(200, stream=WireStream(), headers={"content-encoding": "zstd"})
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    try:
+        with pytest.raises(HTTPResponseLimitError, match="identity, gzip, deflate, or br"):
+            await handler.get("https://cdn.example/zst", max_response_bytes=1024)
+    finally:
+        await handler.close()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bounded_get_rejects_a_declared_compressed_length_over_the_wire_limit(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    consumed = []
+
+    class RecordingStream(httpx.AsyncByteStream):
+        async def __aiter__(self):
+            consumed.append(True)
+            yield b""
+
+    respx_mock.get("https://cdn.example/big.gz").respond(
+        200, headers={"content-encoding": "gzip", "content-length": "1000000"}, stream=RecordingStream()
+    )
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    try:
+        with pytest.raises(HTTPResponseLimitError, match="size limit"):
+            await handler.get("https://cdn.example/big.gz", max_response_bytes=1024)
+    finally:
+        await handler.close()
+    assert consumed == []
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_bounded_get_closes_stream_on_cancellation(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
     monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
diff --git a/tests/unit/proxy/mcp_server/test_openapi_to_mcp_generator.py b/tests/unit/proxy/mcp_server/test_openapi_to_mcp_generator.py
index adb185e4242..89226247cd3 100644
--- a/tests/unit/proxy/mcp_server/test_openapi_to_mcp_generator.py
+++ b/tests/unit/proxy/mcp_server/test_openapi_to_mcp_generator.py
@@ -1567,7 +1567,14 @@ class TestBoundedOpenAPISpecLoading:
         assert route.calls[0].request.headers["accept-encoding"] == "identity"
 
     @pytest.mark.asyncio
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("headers", [{"content-length": "1000000"}, {"content-encoding": "gzip"}])
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "headers",
+        [
+            {"content-length": "1000000"},
+            {"content-length": "1000000", "content-encoding": "identity"},
+            {"content-length": "1000000", "content-encoding": "gzip"},
+        ],
+    )
     async def test_unsafe_response_headers_reject_before_reading(self, respx_mock, monkeypatch, headers):
         import httpx
 
@@ -1592,6 +1599,36 @@ class TestBoundedOpenAPISpecLoading:
             await load_openapi_spec_async("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json", max_bytes=12)
         assert closed == [True]
 
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_compressed_spec_loads_when_its_decoded_size_fits(self, respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+        import gzip
+
+        from litellm.proxy._experimental.mcp_server.openapi_to_mcp_generator import load_openapi_spec_async
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+        compressed = gzip.compress(b'{"paths":{}}')
+        assert len(compressed) > 12
+        respx_mock.get("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json").respond(
+            200, content=compressed, headers={"content-encoding": "gzip"}
+        )
+        assert await load_openapi_spec_async("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json", max_bytes=12) == {"paths": {}}
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_compressed_spec_is_capped_on_its_decoded_size(self, respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+        import gzip
+
+        from litellm.llms.custom_httpx.http_handler import HTTPResponseLimitError
+        from litellm.proxy._experimental.mcp_server.openapi_to_mcp_generator import load_openapi_spec_async
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+        compressed = gzip.compress(b'{"paths":{},"pad":"' + b"x" * 100_000 + b'"}')
+        assert len(compressed) < 12_000
+        respx_mock.get("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json").respond(
+            200, content=compressed, headers={"content-encoding": "gzip"}
+        )
+        with pytest.raises(HTTPResponseLimitError):
+            await load_openapi_spec_async("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json", max_bytes=12_000)
+
     @pytest.mark.asyncio
     async def test_chunked_response_is_bounded_and_closed(self, respx_mock, monkeypatch):
         import httpx
diff --git a/tests/unit/proxy/openai_files_endpoint/test_files_endpoint.py b/tests/unit/proxy/openai_files_endpoint/test_files_endpoint.py
index ff63e37bcd8..7aa11e2abcf 100644
--- a/tests/unit/proxy/openai_files_endpoint/test_files_endpoint.py
+++ b/tests/unit/proxy/openai_files_endpoint/test_files_endpoint.py
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ from litellm.proxy.management_endpoints.internal_user_endpoints import ui_view_u
 from litellm.proxy.openai_files_endpoints.file_content_streaming_handler import (
     FileContentStreamingHandler,
 )
+from litellm.proxy.openai_files_endpoints.general_upload_validation import MB
 from litellm.proxy.proxy_server import app
+from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.upload_security import MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES
 from litellm.types.llms.openai import (
     FileListPage,
     HttpxBinaryResponseContent,
@@ -5336,7 +5338,7 @@ def test_create_file_blocked_extension_unset_allows_everything(monkeypatch, llm_
     try:
         response = client.post(
             "/v1/files",
-            files={"file": ("payload.exe", b"MZ\x90\x00", "application/octet-stream")},
+            files={"file": ("payload.exe", b"plain text under an executable name\n", "application/octet-stream")},
             data={"purpose": "user_data"},
             headers={"Authorization": "Bearer test-key"},
         )
@@ -6306,6 +6308,205 @@ def test_create_file_passthrough_fails_closed_when_guardrails_would_scan_the_bat
     assert forwarded_calls == []
 
 
+EICAR_BYTES: Final = b"X5O!P%@AP[4\\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*"
+
+
+def _post_file_as_admin(monkeypatch, llm_router: Router, *, purpose: str, name: str, content: bytes, ctype: str):
+    import litellm.proxy.proxy_server as ps
+    from litellm.proxy._types import LitellmUserRoles
+    from litellm.proxy.openai_files_endpoints import files_endpoints as fe
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr("litellm.proxy.proxy_server.master_key", None)
+    monkeypatch.setattr("litellm.proxy.proxy_server.prisma_client", None)
+    monkeypatch.setattr("litellm.proxy.proxy_server.llm_router", llm_router)
+    setup_proxy_logging_object(monkeypatch, llm_router)
+    captured: dict = {}
+
+    async def fake_route_create_file(*, _create_file_request, **kwargs):
+        captured["file"] = _create_file_request["file"]
+        return OpenAIFileObject(
+            id="file-clean",
+            object="file",
+            bytes=len(content),
+            created_at=1234567890,
+            filename=name,
+            purpose=purpose,
+            status="uploaded",
+        )
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(fe, "route_create_file", fake_route_create_file)
+    app.dependency_overrides[ps.user_api_key_auth] = lambda: UserAPIKeyAuth(
+        user_role=LitellmUserRoles.PROXY_ADMIN, user_id="test-user"
+    )
+    try:
+        resp = client.post(
+            "/v1/files",
+            files={"file": (name, content, ctype)},
+            data={"purpose": purpose},
+            headers={"Authorization": "Bearer test-key"},
+        )
+    finally:
+        app.dependency_overrides.pop(ps.user_api_key_auth, None)
+    return resp, captured
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("purpose", ["assistants", "user_data"])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "name, content, ctype, reason",
+    [
+        ("notes.txt", EICAR_BYTES, "text/plain", "malware_detected"),
+        ("setup.txt", b"#!/bin/sh\nrm -rf /\n", "text/plain", "executable_not_allowed"),
+        ("report.pdf", b"PK\x03\x04\x14\x00\x00\x00payload", "application/pdf", "archive_not_allowed"),
+        ("empty.txt", b"", "text/plain", "empty_file"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_create_file_for_vector_store_purposes_runs_the_upload_controls(
+    monkeypatch, llm_router: Router, purpose, name, content, ctype, reason
+):
+    resp, captured = _post_file_as_admin(
+        monkeypatch, llm_router, purpose=purpose, name=name, content=content, ctype=ctype
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code == 400, resp.text
+    error = resp.json()["error"]
+    assert error["type"] == "invalid_request_error"
+    assert error["param"] == "file"
+    assert f"Rejection reason: {reason}." in error["message"]
+    assert captured == {}
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("purpose", ["assistants", "user_data"])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "name, content, ctype",
+    [
+        ("Quarterly Notes (final).txt", b"benign document text\n", "text/plain"),
+        ("handbook.pdf", b"%PDF-1.7\n1 0 obj<<>>endobj\n", "application/pdf"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_create_file_for_vector_store_purposes_keeps_the_callers_filename_on_clean_uploads(
+    monkeypatch, llm_router: Router, purpose, name, content, ctype
+):
+    resp, captured = _post_file_as_admin(
+        monkeypatch, llm_router, purpose=purpose, name=name, content=content, ctype=ctype
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    assert captured["file"][0] == name
+    assert captured["file"][1] == content
+
+
+def test_create_file_for_vector_store_purposes_uses_the_configured_scanner(monkeypatch, llm_router: Router):
+    from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.upload_security import RagIngestControls, ScanResult, ScanVerdict
+
+    class _InfectedScanner:
+        def scan(self, content: bytes) -> ScanResult:
+            return ScanResult(verdict=ScanVerdict.INFECTED, signature="Custom.Sig")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "litellm.proxy.proxy_server.proxy_config.rag_ingest_controls", RagIngestControls(scanner=_InfectedScanner())
+    )
+    resp, captured = _post_file_as_admin(
+        monkeypatch, llm_router, purpose="assistants", name="notes.txt", content=b"benign text\n", ctype="text/plain"
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code == 400, resp.text
+    assert "Custom.Sig" in resp.json()["error"]["message"]
+    assert captured == {}
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "purpose, name, content, ctype",
+    [
+        ("batch", "batch.jsonl", VALID_BATCH_LINE, "application/jsonl"),
+        ("fine-tune", "train.jsonl", VALID_BATCH_LINE, "application/jsonl"),
+        ("vision", "photo.png", b"\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n" + b"\x00" * 16, "image/png"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_create_file_other_purposes_skip_the_vector_store_upload_controls(
+    monkeypatch, llm_router: Router, purpose, name, content, ctype
+):
+    from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.upload_security import RagIngestControls, ScanResult, ScanVerdict
+
+    class _InfectedScanner:
+        def scan(self, content: bytes) -> ScanResult:
+            return ScanResult(verdict=ScanVerdict.INFECTED, signature="Custom.Sig")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "litellm.proxy.proxy_server.proxy_config.rag_ingest_controls", RagIngestControls(scanner=_InfectedScanner())
+    )
+    resp, captured = _post_file_as_admin(
+        monkeypatch, llm_router, purpose=purpose, name=name, content=content, ctype=ctype
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    assert captured["file"][0] == name
+
+
+def test_create_file_for_vector_store_purposes_lets_uploads_through_when_files_api_controls_is_off(
+    monkeypatch, llm_router: Router
+):
+    from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.upload_security import RagIngestControls, ScanResult, ScanVerdict
+    from litellm.types.proxy.rag_ingest import RagIngestSettings
+
+    class _InfectedScanner:
+        def scan(self, content: bytes) -> ScanResult:
+            return ScanResult(verdict=ScanVerdict.INFECTED, signature="Custom.Sig")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "litellm.proxy.proxy_server.proxy_config.rag_ingest_controls",
+        RagIngestControls(settings=RagIngestSettings(files_api_controls=False), scanner=_InfectedScanner()),
+    )
+    zip_bytes: Final = b"PK\x03\x04\x14\x00\x00\x00payload"
+    resp, captured = _post_file_as_admin(
+        monkeypatch, llm_router, purpose="assistants", name="deck.zip", content=zip_bytes, ctype="application/zip"
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    assert captured["file"][0] == "deck.zip"
+    assert captured["file"][1] == zip_bytes
+
+
+def test_create_file_for_vector_store_purposes_reads_at_most_the_cap_plus_one_byte(monkeypatch, llm_router: Router):
+    from litellm.proxy.openai_files_endpoints import files_endpoints as fe
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(fe, "MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES", 10)
+    resp, captured = _post_file_as_admin(
+        monkeypatch, llm_router, purpose="assistants", name="notes.txt", content=b"x" * 20, ctype="text/plain"
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code == 400, resp.text
+    message = resp.json()["error"]["message"]
+    assert "Uploaded file is 11 bytes" in message
+    assert "Rejection reason: file_too_large." in message
+    assert captured == {}
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "max_file_size_mb, controls_apply, expected",
+    [
+        (None, True, MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES + 1),
+        (0, True, MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES + 1),
+        (1, True, MB + 1),
+        (1024, True, MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES + 1),
+        (1, False, MB + 1),
+        (None, False, None),
+    ],
+)
+def test_upload_read_limit_is_the_smaller_of_the_admin_limit_and_the_vector_store_cap(
+    max_file_size_mb, controls_apply, expected
+):
+    from litellm.proxy.openai_files_endpoints.files_endpoints import _upload_read_limit_bytes
+
+    assert _upload_read_limit_bytes(max_file_size_mb, controls_apply) == expected
+
+
+def test_vector_store_upload_controls_refuse_a_source_that_was_not_read_into_memory():
+    from io import BytesIO
+
+    from litellm.proxy._types import ProxyException
+    from litellm.proxy.openai_files_endpoints.files_endpoints import _in_memory_upload
+
+    assert _in_memory_upload(b"in memory") == b"in memory"
+    with pytest.raises(ProxyException) as raised:
+        _in_memory_upload(BytesIO(b"spooled to disk"))
+    assert raised.value.code == "500"
+    assert raised.value.param == "file"
+
+
 def _callers_files_on_every_deployment() -> list[MagicMock]:
     return [
         _managed_file_row("unified-gpt-newer", model_mappings={"gpt-3.5-turbo-id": "file-gpt-newer"}),
diff --git a/tests/unit/proxy/rag_endpoints/test_rag_endpoints.py b/tests/unit/proxy/rag_endpoints/test_rag_endpoints.py
index bf4b5d5d77a..d2e096668ed 100644
--- a/tests/unit/proxy/rag_endpoints/test_rag_endpoints.py
+++ b/tests/unit/proxy/rag_endpoints/test_rag_endpoints.py
@@ -2,22 +2,33 @@
 Tests for RAG proxy endpoints.
 """
 
+import base64
 import io
 import json
 from collections.abc import Iterator, Mapping, Sequence
+from dataclasses import dataclass
 from typing import Final
 from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, MagicMock, patch
 
 import httpx
 import pytest
 import respx
+from fastapi import HTTPException
 from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
 
 import litellm
 from litellm import Router
+from litellm.llms.custom_httpx.http_handler import HTTPResponseLimitError
 from litellm.proxy._types import LitellmUserRoles, UserAPIKeyAuth
 from litellm.proxy.auth.user_api_key_auth import user_api_key_auth
 from litellm.proxy.proxy_server import app
+from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.upload_security import (
+    MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES,
+    EicarTestMalwareScanner,
+    RagIngestControls,
+    ScanResult,
+    ScanVerdict,
+)
 from litellm.types.vector_stores import LiteLLM_ManagedVectorStore
 from litellm.vector_stores.vector_store_registry import VectorStoreRegistry
 
@@ -229,7 +240,9 @@ class TestRagIngestSSRFBlocked:
         error_text = detail.get("error", "") if isinstance(detail, dict) else str(detail)
         assert field in error_text, f"Error should name the offending field: {error_text}"
 
-    def test_clean_bedrock_ingest_options_not_rejected(self, client_internal_user):
+    def test_clean_bedrock_ingest_options_not_rejected(self, client_internal_user, monkeypatch):
+        fetch_url, _seen = _fetcher_answering(200, b"%PDF-1.7\n1 0 obj<<>>endobj\n", content_type="application/pdf")
+        monkeypatch.setattr("litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.fetch_file_url", fetch_url)
         with patch(
             "litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.litellm.aingest",
             new_callable=AsyncMock,
@@ -486,7 +499,12 @@ def test_rag_ingest_uses_the_forwarded_provider_key_over_team_provider_credentia
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("ingest_request", [_ingest_form, _ingest_json])
-def test_rag_ingest_drop_params_drops_a_forwarded_key_that_cannot_be_an_http_header(client_team_a, ingest_request):
+def test_rag_ingest_drop_params_drops_a_forwarded_key_that_cannot_be_an_http_header(
+    client_team_a, ingest_request, monkeypatch
+):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.fetch_file_url", _fetcher_answering(200, b"test content")[0]
+    )
     aingest_patch, registry_patch = _patched_ingest_boundary(
         None,
         {"status": "completed", "vector_store_id": "vs_new", "file_id": "file_123"},
@@ -512,7 +530,12 @@ def test_rag_ingest_drop_params_drops_a_forwarded_key_that_cannot_be_an_http_hea
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("unread_request_field", ["not json", json.dumps({"drop_params": False})])
-def test_rag_ingest_json_body_ignores_a_request_field_it_does_not_read(client_team_a, unread_request_field):
+def test_rag_ingest_json_body_ignores_a_request_field_it_does_not_read(
+    client_team_a, unread_request_field, monkeypatch
+):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.fetch_file_url", _fetcher_answering(200, b"test content")[0]
+    )
     aingest_patch, registry_patch = _patched_ingest_boundary(
         None,
         {"status": "completed", "vector_store_id": "vs_new", "file_id": "file_123"},
@@ -1764,6 +1787,156 @@ def _multipart_ingest_request(*, filename: str, content: bytes, content_type: st
     return Request(scope, receive)
 
 
+async def _never_fetch(url: str):
+    raise AssertionError(f"no fetch expected, got {url}")
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class _FixedScanner:
+    verdict: ScanVerdict
+
+    def scan(self, content: bytes) -> ScanResult:
+        return ScanResult(verdict=self.verdict, signature="Custom.Sig")
+
+
+def _fetcher_answering(status_code: int, content: bytes, content_type: str = "text/plain"):
+    seen: list[str] = []
+
+    async def fetch_url(url: str) -> httpx.Response:
+        seen.append(url)
+        return httpx.Response(status_code, content=content, headers={"content-type": content_type})
+
+    return fetch_url, seen
+
+
+FILE_URL_BODY = {
+    "file_url": "https://docs.example.com/reports/q3.txt",
+    "ingest_options": json.loads(INGEST_REQUEST)["ingest_options"],
+}
+
+
+class TestFileUrlUploadControls:
+    """A ``file_url`` is fetched by the proxy and goes through the same controls as an inline upload."""
+
+    async def _fetch(self, fetch_url, scanner=None):
+        from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints import fetch_and_secure_file_url
+
+        return await fetch_and_secure_file_url(
+            FILE_URL_BODY["file_url"],
+            scanner=scanner or EicarTestMalwareScanner(),
+            fetch_url=fetch_url,
+        )
+
+    async def _expect_rejection(self, fetch_url, reason: str | None, scanner=None) -> dict:
+        with pytest.raises(HTTPException) as excinfo:
+            await self._fetch(fetch_url, scanner=scanner)
+        assert excinfo.value.status_code == 400
+        detail = excinfo.value.detail
+        assert detail.get("reason") == reason, detail
+        return detail
+
+    async def test_eicar_behind_a_url_is_blocked(self):
+        fetch_url, seen = _fetcher_answering(200, EICAR.encode())
+        await self._expect_rejection(fetch_url, "malware_detected")
+        assert seen == [FILE_URL_BODY["file_url"]]
+
+    async def test_shebang_behind_a_url_is_blocked(self):
+        fetch_url, _seen = _fetcher_answering(200, b"#!/bin/sh\nrm -rf /\n")
+        await self._expect_rejection(fetch_url, "executable_not_allowed")
+
+    async def test_oversize_url_is_blocked_before_it_is_buffered(self):
+        async def fetch_url(url: str) -> httpx.Response:
+            raise HTTPResponseLimitError(f"Response exceeded {MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES} bytes")
+
+        detail = await self._expect_rejection(fetch_url, "file_too_large")
+        assert str(MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE_BYTES) in detail["error"]
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("status_code", [301, 403, 404, 500])
+    async def test_non_2xx_fetch_is_a_client_error_naming_the_status(self, status_code):
+        fetch_url, _seen = _fetcher_answering(status_code, b"benign document text")
+        detail = await self._expect_rejection(fetch_url, None)
+        assert f"HTTP {status_code}" in detail["error"]
+
+    async def test_ssrf_or_transport_failure_is_a_client_error(self):
+        async def fetch_url(url: str) -> httpx.Response:
+            raise ValueError("Blocked private address")
+
+        detail = await self._expect_rejection(fetch_url, None)
+        assert "Blocked private address" in detail["error"]
+
+    async def test_clean_text_behind_a_url_is_handed_on_as_bytes(self):
+        fetch_url, _seen = _fetcher_answering(200, b"benign document text\n", content_type="text/x-whatever")
+        server_filename, content_bytes, content_type = await self._fetch(fetch_url)
+        assert content_bytes == b"benign document text\n"
+        assert server_filename.endswith(".txt") and "/" not in server_filename
+        assert content_type == "text/plain"
+
+    async def test_url_bytes_go_through_the_injected_scanner(self):
+        fetch_url, _seen = _fetcher_answering(200, b"benign document text\n")
+        await self._expect_rejection(fetch_url, "malware_detected", scanner=_FixedScanner(ScanVerdict.INFECTED))
+
+    def test_route_prefers_an_inline_file_and_never_fetches_the_url(self, client_internal_user, monkeypatch):
+        monkeypatch.setattr("litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.fetch_file_url", _never_fetch)
+        inline = {"filename": "inline.txt", "content": base64.b64encode(b"inline text").decode()}
+        with (
+            patch(  # test-quality-ok: aingest is the endpoint's downstream boundary; the test asserts the forwarded bytes
+                "litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.litellm.aingest",
+                new_callable=AsyncMock,
+                return_value={"vector_store_id": "vs_new", "file_id": "file_123"},
+            ) as mock_aingest
+        ):
+            response = client_internal_user.post("/v1/rag/ingest", json={**FILE_URL_BODY, "file": inline})
+        assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
+        assert mock_aingest.await_args.kwargs["file_data"][1] == b"inline text"
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("field", [{"file_url": ["https://docs.example.com/q3.txt"]}, {"file_id": {"id": 1}}])
+    def test_route_rejects_a_non_string_file_reference(self, client_internal_user, monkeypatch, field):
+        monkeypatch.setattr("litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.fetch_file_url", _never_fetch)
+        body = {"ingest_options": FILE_URL_BODY["ingest_options"], **field}
+        response = client_internal_user.post("/v1/rag/ingest", json=body)
+        assert response.status_code == 400, response.text
+        assert f"'{next(iter(field))}' must be a string" in response.json()["detail"]["error"]
+
+    def test_route_validates_the_request_before_fetching_the_url(self, client_internal_user, monkeypatch):
+        monkeypatch.setattr("litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.fetch_file_url", _never_fetch)
+        vector_store = {"custom_llm_provider": "bedrock", "aws_sts_endpoint": "https://attacker.example/sts"}
+        body = {**FILE_URL_BODY, "ingest_options": {"vector_store": vector_store}}
+        response = client_internal_user.post("/v1/rag/ingest", json=body)
+        assert response.status_code == 400, response.text
+        assert "aws_sts_endpoint" in response.json()["detail"]["error"]
+
+    def test_route_hands_fetched_bytes_to_ingestion_and_never_the_url(self, client_internal_user, monkeypatch):
+        fetch_url, seen = _fetcher_answering(200, b"benign document text\n")
+        monkeypatch.setattr("litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.fetch_file_url", fetch_url)
+        with (
+            patch(  # test-quality-ok: aingest is the endpoint's downstream boundary; the test asserts the forwarded bytes
+                "litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.litellm.aingest",
+                new_callable=AsyncMock,
+                return_value={"vector_store_id": "vs_new", "file_id": "file_123"},
+            ) as mock_aingest
+        ):
+            response = client_internal_user.post("/v1/rag/ingest", json=FILE_URL_BODY)
+        assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
+        assert seen == [FILE_URL_BODY["file_url"]]
+        forwarded = mock_aingest.await_args.kwargs
+        assert forwarded["file_data"][1] == b"benign document text\n"
+        assert "file_url" not in forwarded
+
+    def test_route_rejects_eicar_behind_a_url(self, client_internal_user, monkeypatch):
+        fetch_url, _seen = _fetcher_answering(200, EICAR.encode())
+        monkeypatch.setattr("litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.fetch_file_url", fetch_url)
+        with (
+            patch(  # test-quality-ok: aingest is the endpoint's downstream boundary; the test asserts it is never reached
+                "litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.litellm.aingest",
+                new_callable=AsyncMock,
+            ) as mock_aingest
+        ):
+            response = client_internal_user.post("/v1/rag/ingest", json=FILE_URL_BODY)
+        assert response.status_code == 400, response.text
+        assert response.json()["detail"]["reason"] == "malware_detected"
+        mock_aingest.assert_not_awaited()
+
+
 class TestVectorStoreUploadControls:
     """End-to-end enforcement of pentest M4 upload controls on /v1/rag/ingest."""
 
@@ -1795,6 +1968,47 @@ class TestVectorStoreUploadControls:
         assert response.status_code == 400, response.text
         assert response.json()["detail"]["reason"] == "archive_not_allowed"
 
+    def test_route_runs_the_configured_scanner(self, client_internal_user, monkeypatch):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            "litellm.proxy.proxy_server.proxy_config.rag_ingest_controls",
+            RagIngestControls(scanner=_FixedScanner(ScanVerdict.INFECTED)),
+        )
+        with (
+            patch(  # test-quality-ok: aingest is the endpoint's downstream boundary; the test asserts it is never reached
+                "litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.litellm.aingest",
+                new_callable=AsyncMock,
+            ) as mock_aingest
+        ):
+            response = client_internal_user.post(
+                "/v1/rag/ingest",
+                files={"file": ("doc.txt", io.BytesIO(b"benign document text"), "text/plain")},
+                data={"request": INGEST_REQUEST},
+            )
+        assert response.status_code == 400, response.text
+        assert response.json()["detail"]["reason"] == "malware_detected"
+        assert "Custom.Sig" in response.json()["detail"]["error"]
+        mock_aingest.assert_not_awaited()
+
+    def test_route_lets_a_clean_verdict_from_the_configured_scanner_through(self, client_internal_user, monkeypatch):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            "litellm.proxy.proxy_server.proxy_config.rag_ingest_controls",
+            RagIngestControls(scanner=_FixedScanner(ScanVerdict.CLEAN)),
+        )
+        with (
+            patch(  # test-quality-ok: aingest is the endpoint's downstream boundary; the test asserts the forwarded bytes
+                "litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints.litellm.aingest",
+                new_callable=AsyncMock,
+                return_value={"vector_store_id": "vs_new", "file_id": "file_123"},
+            ) as mock_aingest
+        ):
+            response = client_internal_user.post(
+                "/v1/rag/ingest",
+                files={"file": ("clean_name.txt", io.BytesIO(EICAR.encode()), "text/plain")},
+                data={"request": INGEST_REQUEST},
+            )
+        assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
+        assert mock_aingest.await_args.kwargs["file_data"][1] == EICAR.encode()
+
     async def test_clean_text_upload_gets_server_generated_filename(self):
         from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.endpoints import parse_rag_ingest_request
         from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.upload_security import EicarTestMalwareScanner
diff --git a/tests/unit/proxy/rag_endpoints/test_upload_security.py b/tests/unit/proxy/rag_endpoints/test_upload_security.py
index 84375080904..e31387bce12 100644
--- a/tests/unit/proxy/rag_endpoints/test_upload_security.py
+++ b/tests/unit/proxy/rag_endpoints/test_upload_security.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ dependency-injected malware scanner validated with the EICAR test file.
 """
 
 from dataclasses import dataclass
+from types import SimpleNamespace
 
 import pytest
 
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.upload_security import (
     EICAR_TEST_SIGNATURE,
     DetectedFormat,
     EicarTestMalwareScanner,
+    RagIngestConfigError,
     RejectedUpload,
     RejectionReason,
     ScanResult,
@@ -21,9 +23,12 @@ from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.upload_security import (
     SecuredUpload,
     generate_safe_filename,
     inspect_content,
+    parse_rag_ingest_settings,
+    resolve_malware_scanner,
     safe_download_headers,
     validate_upload,
 )
+from litellm.types.proxy.rag_ingest import RagIngestSettings
 
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
@@ -174,3 +179,112 @@ def test_safe_download_headers_sanitize_injection(hostile):
     disposition = safe_download_headers(hostile)["Content-Disposition"]
     assert "\r" not in disposition and "\n" not in disposition
     assert disposition.count('"') == 2
+
+
+def _loader_returning(loaded: object):
+    calls: list[tuple[str, str | None]] = []
+
+    def load_instance(value: str, config_file_path: str | None) -> object:
+        calls.append((value, config_file_path))
+        return loaded
+
+    return load_instance, calls
+
+
+def _loader_raising(error: Exception):
+    def load_instance(value: str, config_file_path: str | None) -> object:
+        raise error
+
+    return load_instance
+
+
+def test_parse_rag_ingest_settings_unset_block_runs_every_control_with_the_eicar_scanner():
+    for rag_ingest in (None, {}, {"malware_scanner": None}):
+        assert parse_rag_ingest_settings(rag_ingest) == RagIngestSettings(
+            malware_scanner=None, files_api_controls=True
+        ), rag_ingest
+
+
+def test_parse_rag_ingest_settings_reads_the_files_api_opt_out():
+    parsed = parse_rag_ingest_settings({"malware_scanner": "custom_scanner.scanner", "files_api_controls": False})
+    assert parsed == RagIngestSettings(malware_scanner="custom_scanner.scanner", files_api_controls=False)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "rag_ingest",
+    [
+        {"malware_scaner": "custom_scanner.scanner"},
+        {"malware_scanner": 42},
+        {"files_api_controls": "sometimes"},
+        "custom_scanner.scanner",
+        ["x"],
+    ],
+)
+def test_parse_rag_ingest_settings_rejects_an_invalid_block(rag_ingest):
+    parsed = parse_rag_ingest_settings(rag_ingest)
+    assert isinstance(parsed, RagIngestConfigError)
+    assert "general_settings.rag_ingest" in parsed.message
+
+
+def test_resolve_malware_scanner_unset_runs_the_eicar_test_scanner():
+    load_instance, calls = _loader_returning(_CLEAN_SCANNER)
+    resolved = resolve_malware_scanner(
+        RagIngestSettings(), config_file_path="/etc/litellm/config.yaml", load_instance=load_instance
+    )
+    assert isinstance(resolved, EicarTestMalwareScanner)
+    assert calls == []
+
+
+def test_resolve_malware_scanner_loads_the_configured_instance_next_to_the_config():
+    load_instance, calls = _loader_returning(_INFECTED_SCANNER)
+    resolved = resolve_malware_scanner(
+        RagIngestSettings(malware_scanner="custom_scanner.scanner"),
+        config_file_path="/etc/litellm/config.yaml",
+        load_instance=load_instance,
+    )
+    assert resolved is _INFECTED_SCANNER
+    assert calls == [("custom_scanner.scanner", "/etc/litellm/config.yaml")]
+    assert validate_upload(content=_TEXT_BYTES, scanner=resolved).reason is RejectionReason.MALWARE_DETECTED
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "loaded, expected_fragment",
+    [
+        (object(), "no scan(content: bytes) -> ScanResult method"),
+        ("custom_scanner.scanner", "no scan(content: bytes) -> ScanResult method"),
+        (SimpleNamespace(scan="not callable"), "no scan(content: bytes) -> ScanResult method"),
+        (_StubScanner, "names the class _StubScanner"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_resolve_malware_scanner_rejects_an_object_that_is_not_a_scanner(loaded, expected_fragment):
+    load_instance, _calls = _loader_returning(loaded)
+    resolved = resolve_malware_scanner(
+        RagIngestSettings(malware_scanner="custom_scanner.scanner"),
+        config_file_path=None,
+        load_instance=load_instance,
+    )
+    assert isinstance(resolved, RagIngestConfigError)
+    assert "general_settings.rag_ingest.malware_scanner" in resolved.message
+    assert "custom_scanner.scanner" in resolved.message
+    assert expected_fragment in resolved.message
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "error",
+    [
+        ImportError("Could not import scanner from custom_scanner"),
+        AttributeError("module has no attribute scanner"),
+        ValueError("Empty module name"),
+        RuntimeError("clamd socket is missing"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_resolve_malware_scanner_reports_a_failed_load_with_the_option_name(error):
+    resolved = resolve_malware_scanner(
+        RagIngestSettings(malware_scanner="custom_scanner.scanner"),
+        config_file_path=None,
+        load_instance=_loader_raising(error),
+    )
+    assert isinstance(resolved, RagIngestConfigError)
+    assert "general_settings.rag_ingest.malware_scanner" in resolved.message
+    assert str(error) in resolved.message
+
diff --git a/tests/unit/proxy/test_proxy_server_endpoints_and_startup.py b/tests/unit/proxy/test_proxy_server_endpoints_and_startup.py
index 8536cbaa399..11aa4d14777 100644
--- a/tests/unit/proxy/test_proxy_server_endpoints_and_startup.py
+++ b/tests/unit/proxy/test_proxy_server_endpoints_and_startup.py
@@ -3699,6 +3699,57 @@ async def test_load_config_role_permissions_usable_by_jwt_auth(tmp_path):
     assert get_role_based_models(rbac_role="team", general_settings=settings) is None
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_load_config_wires_the_configured_malware_scanner_into_uploads(tmp_path):
+    from litellm.proxy.proxy_server import ProxyConfig
+    from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.upload_security import EicarTestMalwareScanner, ScanVerdict
+
+    proxy_config: Final = ProxyConfig()
+    (tmp_path / "boot_scanner.py").write_text(
+        "from litellm.proxy.rag_endpoints.upload_security import ScanResult, ScanVerdict\n"
+        "class FlagEverything:\n"
+        "    def scan(self, content):\n"
+        "        return ScanResult(verdict=ScanVerdict.INFECTED, signature='Boot.Test')\n"
+        "scanner = FlagEverything()\n"
+        "not_a_scanner = object()\n"
+    )
+    config_file: Final = tmp_path / "config.yaml"
+
+    config_file.write_text(
+        yaml.dump({"model_list": [], "general_settings": {"rag_ingest": {"malware_scanner": "boot_scanner.scanner"}}})
+    )
+    await proxy_config.load_config(router=MagicMock(), config_file_path=str(config_file))
+    assert proxy_config.rag_ingest_controls.scanner.scan(b"plain text").verdict is ScanVerdict.INFECTED
+    assert proxy_config.rag_ingest_controls.settings.files_api_controls is True
+
+    config_file.write_text(
+        yaml.dump(
+            {
+                "model_list": [],
+                "general_settings": {
+                    "rag_ingest": {"malware_scanner": "boot_scanner.scanner", "files_api_controls": False}
+                },
+            }
+        )
+    )
+    await proxy_config.load_config(router=MagicMock(), config_file_path=str(config_file))
+    assert proxy_config.rag_ingest_controls.settings.files_api_controls is False
+    assert proxy_config.rag_ingest_controls.scanner.scan(b"plain text").verdict is ScanVerdict.INFECTED
+
+    config_file.write_text(yaml.dump({"model_list": []}))
+    await proxy_config.load_config(router=MagicMock(), config_file_path=str(config_file))
+    assert isinstance(proxy_config.rag_ingest_controls.scanner, EicarTestMalwareScanner)
+    assert proxy_config.rag_ingest_controls.settings.files_api_controls is True
+
+    config_file.write_text(
+        yaml.dump(
+            {"model_list": [], "general_settings": {"rag_ingest": {"malware_scanner": "boot_scanner.not_a_scanner"}}}
+        )
+    )
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=re.escape("general_settings.rag_ingest.malware_scanner")):
+        await proxy_config.load_config(router=MagicMock(), config_file_path=str(config_file))
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_load_config_without_role_permissions_leaves_every_role_unrestricted(tmp_path):
     from litellm.proxy.auth.auth_checks import get_role_based_models, get_role_based_routes
diff --git a/tests/unit/proxy/types_utils/test_db_overlay_remote_module_scrub.py b/tests/unit/proxy/types_utils/test_db_overlay_remote_module_scrub.py
index 0072997a0d9..9f5ed39f232 100644
--- a/tests/unit/proxy/types_utils/test_db_overlay_remote_module_scrub.py
+++ b/tests/unit/proxy/types_utils/test_db_overlay_remote_module_scrub.py
@@ -182,6 +182,21 @@ def test_litellm_jwtauth_custom_validate_stripped():
     assert cleaned["litellm_jwtauth"]["user_id_jwt_field"] == "sub"
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("remote", ["s3://attacker/m.scanner", "gcs://attacker/m.scanner"])
+def test_rag_ingest_malware_scanner_stripped(remote):
+    overlay = {"rag_ingest": {"malware_scanner": remote}, "custom_auth": "my_auth.handler"}
+    cleaned = _scrub_db_overlay_remote_module_loads("general_settings", overlay)
+    assert cleaned["rag_ingest"]["malware_scanner"] is None
+    assert cleaned["custom_auth"] == "my_auth.handler"
+    assert overlay["rag_ingest"]["malware_scanner"] == remote
+
+
+def test_rag_ingest_local_malware_scanner_preserved():
+    overlay = {"rag_ingest": {"malware_scanner": "custom_scanner.scanner"}}
+    cleaned = _scrub_db_overlay_remote_module_loads("general_settings", overlay)
+    assert cleaned["rag_ingest"]["malware_scanner"] == "custom_scanner.scanner"
+
+
 def test_local_dotted_name_preserved():
     # The scrub only targets s3:// / gcs:// scheme prefixes — legitimate
     # dotted module names (the documented operator flow) must pass
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/lib/http/schema.d.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/lib/http/schema.d.ts
index d14e490f606..7b81f1f2487 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/lib/http/schema.d.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/lib/http/schema.d.ts
@@ -31262,6 +31262,8 @@ export interface components {
              * @default 30
              */
             proxy_config_reload_interval_seconds: number;
+            /** @description controls run on every upload that lands in a vector store (/v1/rag/ingest and /v1/files with purpose assistants or user_data); rag_ingest.malware_scanner names the scanner instance as <module>.<instance> the way custom_auth does, and unset runs the EICAR test scanner; rag_ingest.files_api_controls: false lets the /v1/files uploads through unchecked - https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/rag_ingest */
+            rag_ingest?: components["schemas"]["RagIngestSettings"] | null;
             /**
              * Reject Clientside Metadata Tags
              * @description When set to True, rejects requests that contain client-side 'metadata.tags' to prevent users from influencing budgets by sending different tags. Tags can only be inherited from the API key metadata.
@@ -43274,6 +43276,20 @@ export interface components {
                 };
             } | null;
         };
+        /** RagIngestSettings */
+        RagIngestSettings: {
+            /**
+             * Files Api Controls
+             * @description Whether /v1/files uploads with purpose assistants or user_data run the upload controls (format, size and malware checks) before reaching the provider. false lets those uploads through unchecked, for a deployment that sends the provider a format the controls reject on that route, such as DOCX or images. /v1/rag/ingest runs the controls whatever this is set to
+             * @default true
+             */
+            files_api_controls: boolean;
+            /**
+             * Malware Scanner
+             * @description The scanner every vector-store upload goes through, as <module>.<instance> where the module sits next to config.yaml or is importable, resolved the way custom_auth is. The instance must expose scan(content: bytes) -> ScanResult and be safe to call from several threads at once. Unset runs the EICAR test scanner, which flags only the EICAR test file
+             */
+            malware_scanner?: string | null;
+        };
         /**
          * RankingOptions
          * @description Ranking options for search.