CVE-2026-109229
highpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.005 · 43 %ileEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.6–8.7
ssvc
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affected products
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No affected products recorded.
sources
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references (5) nvd
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang
- https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/blob/v0.5.21/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/nano_nemotron_vl.py#L82
- https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/blob/v0.5.21/python/sglang/srt/utils/common.py#L1952-L1961
- https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/issues/43707
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sglang-through-0.5.21-decompression-bomb-dos-via-nanonemotronvlimageprocessor
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