# CVE-2026-115922: ONNX: Denial of service via unchecked expansion of packed sub-byte tensors in ONNX Python APIs

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-110049, GHSA-Q69G-F4F5-V8M7
- Severity: CVSS 6.2 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.22.0
- Published: 2026-10-26 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Summary

The ONNX open-source machine learning library's Python APIs, specifically its tensor conversion and reference evaluation helpers, are affected. A maliciously crafted model containing packed low-bit tensors can cause these functions to allocate far more memory than the input contains, potentially exhausting available memory and causing a denial of service.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- onnx: fixed in 1.22.0
- onnx (PyPI): fixed in 1.22.0

## Description

Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) is an open standard for machine learning interoperability. Prior to 1.22.0, _unpack_2bit() and _unpack_4bit() resize unpacked arrays according to attacker-controlled TensorProto.dims without verifying that raw_data or int32_data encodes the declared number of elements. Materializing an untrusted UINT2, INT2, UINT4, INT4, or FLOAT4E2M1 tensor through onnx.numpy_helper.to_array() or onnx.reference.ReferenceEvaluator can therefore expand a small packed payload into a disproportionately large allocation and exhaust memory. This issue is fixed in version 1.22.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on onnx, upgrade to a fixed version (1.22.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/onnx/onnx/security/advisories/GHSA-q69g-f4f5-v8m7
- https://github.com/onnx/onnx/pull/8033
- https://github.com/onnx/onnx/pull/8038
- https://github.com/onnx/onnx/pull/8066
- https://github.com/onnx/onnx/commit/05c1bc3bceceb8d3cf11e9e7fc7f19f971c44988
- https://github.com/onnx/onnx/commit/8de2cf6aa47928e6515ac6d9e1a8b4758886a7df
- https://github.com/onnx/onnx/commit/dce5876d6cc6cc30157af7d26a752ef44976da8e
- https://github.com/onnx/onnx/releases/tag/v1.22.0

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