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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-54716 EUVD-2026-82404

Valhalla: Degenerate exclude_polygons (collinear points, zero area) causes OOM in /sources_to_targets

Published Sep 17, 2026 · Updated Sep 18, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Valhalla is an open source routing engine and accompanying libraries for use with OpenStreetMap data. In 3.7.0 and earlier, a POST request to /sources_to_targets containing an exclude_polygons ring formed by three collinear points can cause unbounded memory growth in the worker. The zero-area geometry, rather than the other request options, triggers processing in src/loki/polygon_search.cc until the process is terminated by the out-of-memory killer. A single unauthenticated request can therefore stop a public-facing worker. Other endpoints that accept exclude_polygons, including /route, were not verified as affected. No fixed version is available as of this review.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
valhalla valhalla <= 3.7.0 —

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