CVE-2026-93838 PUBLISHED

SGLang through 0.5.20 Unbounded Memory Allocation via STAGING_REQ chunk_idx

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 18.09.2026 Published: 18.09.2026 Updated: 18.09.2026

SGLang versions through 0.5.20 contain an unbounded memory allocation vulnerability in handle_staging_req() that fails to validate chunk_idx from ZMQ STAGING_REQ frames in prefill/decode disaggregation deployments. Attackers with access to the decode engine's internal ZMQ rank port can send a frame with an extremely large chunk_idx value, causing the scheduler to allocate memory until the system runs out and terminates the process.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.2

Product Status

Vendor sgl-project
Product sglang
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.5.20 (incl.)

Credits

  • Jiapeng Li reporter
  • Mingkai Yu reporter
  • Jiajia Liu reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE