CVE-2026-109229
SGLang through 0.5.21 Decompression Bomb DoS via NanoNemotronVLImageProcessor
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.7 High
- Published
- Oct 12, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 13, 2026
- Reserved
- Oct 12, 2026
Description
SGLang through 0.5.21 contains a denial of service vulnerability that disables Pillow decompression bomb protection process-wide by setting Image.MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS to None in NanoNemotronVLImageProcessor. Remote attackers can submit small, highly compressed images with huge dimensions to the generic image loader, exhausting worker memory during decoding.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 8.7 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | VulnCheck |
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | VulnCheck |
Weaknesses
- CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
sglangsgl-project |
|
References
- GitHub Issue #43707issue-tracking
- https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/blob/v0.5.21/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/nano_nemotron_vl.py#L82technical-description
- https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/blob/v0.5.21/python/sglang/srt/utils/common.py#L1952-L1961technical-description
- https://github.com/sgl-project/sglangproduct
- VulnCheck Advisory: SGLang through 0.5.21 Decompression Bomb DoS via NanoNemotronVLImageProcessorthird-party-advisory
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