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CVE-2026-109225: SGLang through 0.5.21 Memory Exhaustion DoS via /v1/audio/transcriptions Upload

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-12 · updated 2026-10-13
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

SGLang through 0.5.21 contains an unbounded memory allocation vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to exhaust memory by uploading oversized files to /v1/audio/transcriptions. Attackers can send concurrent large multipart uploads, which are fully read into memory before validation, to crash the HTTP/tokenizer worker and deny service.

Affected products

• SGLang: through 0.5.21

References

• https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang
• https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/blob/v0.5.21/python/sglang/srt/entrypoints/http_server.py#L1847-L1871
• https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/issues/43709
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sglang-through-0.5.21-memory-exhaustion-dos-via-v1-audio-transcriptions-upload

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