# CVE-2026-109229: SGLang through 0.5.21 Decompression Bomb DoS via NanoNemotronVLImageProcessor

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: 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
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-12 · Updated: 2026-10-13

## Affected

- sgl-project sglang: through 0.5.21

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on sgl-project sglang, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/issues/43707
- 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
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sglang-through-0.5.21-decompression-bomb-dos-via-nanonemotronvlimageprocessor

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