feat: add safeguards for remote media URLs (#34892)

docs/docs/advanced_features/server_arguments.mdx

@@ -56,6 +56,15 @@ You can find all arguments by `python3 -m sglang.launch_server --help`
 - To enable fp8 weight quantization, add `--quantization fp8` on a fp16 checkpoint or directly load a fp8 checkpoint without specifying any arguments.
 - To enable fp8 kv cache quantization, add `--kv-cache-dtype fp8_e4m3` or `--kv-cache-dtype fp8_e5m2`.
 - To enable deterministic inference and batch invariant operations, add `--enable-deterministic-inference`. More details can be found in [deterministic inference document](./deterministic_inference).
+- If a multimodal server accepts requests from untrusted clients, restrict remote image, video, and audio URLs with `--allowed-media-domains`. SGLang checks the initial URL and every redirect destination against the exact-hostname allowlist. Remote media downloads are limited to 64 MiB by default; adjust `--media-url-max-file-size-mb` when larger trusted media is required.
+
+  ```bash Command
+  python -m sglang.launch_server \
+    --model-path Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct \
+    --allowed-media-domains upload.wikimedia.org raw.githubusercontent.com
+  ```
+
+  Without `--allowed-media-domains`, HTTP(S) media from any domain remains allowed for backward compatibility. Do not expose that configuration to untrusted users. Local paths and `data:` URLs are not governed by the domain allowlist.
 - To enable decode context parallelism for MLA models, add `--dcp-size N`. See [Decode Context Parallelism](./dcp).
 - If the model does not have a chat template in the Hugging Face tokenizer, you can specify a [custom chat template](../references/custom_chat_template). If the tokenizer has multiple named templates (e.g., 'default', 'tool_use'), you can select one using `--hf-chat-template-name tool_use`.
 - To run tensor parallelism on multiple nodes, add `--nnodes 2`. If you have two nodes with two GPUs on each node and want to run TP=4, let `sgl-dev-0` be the hostname of the first node and `50000` be an available port, you can use the following commands. If you meet deadlock, please try to add `--disable-cuda-graph`
@@ -3293,6 +3302,18 @@ Please consult the documentation below and [server_args.py](https://github.com/s
       <td style={{padding: "9px 12px", backgroundColor: "rgba(255,255,255,0.02)"}}><code>&#123;&#125;</code></td>
       <td style={{padding: "9px 12px", backgroundColor: "rgba(255,255,255,0.05)"}}>Type: JSON / Dict</td>
     </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td style={{padding: "9px 12px", fontWeight: 500, backgroundColor: "rgba(255,255,255,0.02)"}}>`--allowed-media-domains`</td>
+      <td style={{padding: "9px 12px", backgroundColor: "rgba(255,255,255,0.05)"}}>Restrict client-supplied HTTP(S) media URLs and redirect destinations to these exact hostnames.</td>
+      <td style={{padding: "9px 12px", backgroundColor: "rgba(255,255,255,0.02)"}}>Unrestricted</td>
+      <td style={{padding: "9px 12px", backgroundColor: "rgba(255,255,255,0.05)"}}>Space-separated hostnames</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td style={{padding: "9px 12px", fontWeight: 500, backgroundColor: "rgba(255,255,255,0.02)"}}>`--media-url-max-file-size-mb`</td>
+      <td style={{padding: "9px 12px", backgroundColor: "rgba(255,255,255,0.05)"}}>Maximum streamed size in MiB for one remote media download. Set to 0 to disable the limit.</td>
+      <td style={{padding: "9px 12px", backgroundColor: "rgba(255,255,255,0.02)"}}>`64`</td>
+      <td style={{padding: "9px 12px", backgroundColor: "rgba(255,255,255,0.05)"}}>Type: int</td>
+    </tr>
     <tr>
       <td style={{padding: "9px 12px", fontWeight: 500, backgroundColor: "rgba(255,255,255,0.02)"}}>`--mm-enable-dp-encoder`</td>
       <td style={{padding: "9px 12px", backgroundColor: "rgba(255,255,255,0.05)"}}>Enabling data parallelism for mm encoder. The dp size will be set to the tp size automatically.</td>

python/sglang/srt/disaggregation/encode_server.py

@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ from sglang.srt.utils import (
     CLIENT_MEDIA_EXCEPTIONS,
     add_prometheus_middleware,
     configure_logger,
+    configure_media_url_security,
     load_audio,
     load_image,
     load_video,
@@ -308,6 +309,10 @@ class MMEncoder:
         argument."""
         logger.info(f"init MMEncoder {rank}/{server_args.tp_size}")
         self.server_args = server_args
+        configure_media_url_security(
+            server_args.allowed_media_domains,
+            server_args.media_url_max_file_size_mb,
+        )
         publish(server_args, role="encoder")
         self.rank = rank
         # DP rank for metric labels; overridden by run_dp_worker in DP mode.

python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/base_processor.py

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.transport.cuda_ipc import (
 )
 from sglang.srt.utils import (
     CLIENT_MEDIA_EXCEPTIONS,
+    configure_media_url_security,
     envs,
     is_cpu,
     is_npu,
@@ -199,6 +200,10 @@ class BaseMultimodalProcessor(ABC):
         self._processor = _processor
         self.server_args = server_args
         self.transport_mode = transport_mode
+        configure_media_url_security(
+            server_args.allowed_media_domains,
+            server_args.media_url_max_file_size_mb,
+        )
         configured_mm_feature_transport = getattr(
             server_args, "mm_feature_transport", "cpu"
         )

python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/inkling.py

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import base64
 import logging
-import urllib.request
 from collections.abc import Mapping
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Type, Union
 
@@ -53,6 +52,7 @@ from sglang.srt.parser.inkling_tokenizer import IMAGE_TOKEN_ID as INKLING_IMAGE_
 from sglang.srt.parser.inkling_tokenizer import (
     INKLING_SPECIAL_TOKEN_IDS,
 )
+from sglang.srt.utils.common import download_remote_media
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -82,8 +82,7 @@ def _resolve_media_item(item):
         header, _, payload = url.partition(",")
         return base64.b64decode(payload) if ";base64" in header else payload.encode()
     if url.startswith(("http://", "https://")):
-        with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=30) as resp:
+        return download_remote_media(url, timeout=30)
-            return resp.read()
     return url  # plain path / file:// -> handled by the per-modality byte loader
 
 

python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/mimo_audio.py

@@ -186,18 +186,14 @@ class MiMoAudioPipeline:
                     dl_start = time.perf_counter()
                     timeout = int(os.getenv("REQUEST_TIMEOUT", "5"))
                     try:
-                        with common.get_mm_http_session().get(
+                        content = common.download_remote_media(audio, timeout=timeout)
-                            audio, stream=True, timeout=timeout
-                        ) as response:
-                            response.raise_for_status()
                         dl_elapsed_ms = (time.perf_counter() - dl_start) * 1000
                         if dl_elapsed_ms > 1000.0:
-                                content_len = len(response.content)
                             logger.warning(
                                 f"Slow audio download: {dl_elapsed_ms:.2f}ms, "
-                                    f"size={content_len / 1024:.1f}KB, url={audio}"
+                                f"size={len(content) / 1024:.1f}KB, url={audio}"
                             )
-                            file = io.BytesIO(response.content)
+                        file = io.BytesIO(content)
                     except Exception as e:
                         dl_elapsed_ms = (time.perf_counter() - dl_start) * 1000
                         logger.error(

python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/mimo_v2.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import base64
 import copy
 import json
 import math
+import os
 import re
 import subprocess
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed
@@ -13,7 +14,6 @@ from io import BytesIO
 from typing import List, Literal, Optional, Union
 
 import numpy as np
-import requests
 import torch
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 from fastapi import HTTPException
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.mimo_audio import (
 )
 from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.qwen_vl import smart_nframes
 from sglang.srt.utils import ImageData, VideoData
+from sglang.srt.utils.common import download_remote_media
 from sglang.utils import logger
 
 
@@ -485,12 +486,14 @@ class MiMoProcessor:
 
     @staticmethod
     def has_audio_track(path_or_data) -> bool:
-        # In-process probe via torchcodec for bytes/path; ffprobe range
+        # Never hand a client-supplied URL to ffprobe: its internal HTTP client
-        # request for HTTP URLs so we do not pre-download the blob here.
+        # would bypass the shared domain and redirect policy. Resolve it through
+        # the guarded downloader first, then probe the resulting bytes in-process.
         if isinstance(path_or_data, str) and path_or_data.startswith(
             ("http://", "https://")
         ):
-            return _ffprobe_has_audio(path_or_data, stdin=None, label=path_or_data)
+            timeout = int(os.getenv("REQUEST_TIMEOUT", "10"))
+            path_or_data = download_remote_media(path_or_data, timeout=timeout)
 
         if isinstance(path_or_data, bytes):
             source = BytesIO(path_or_data)
@@ -1446,9 +1449,7 @@ class MiMoProcessor:
             image_obj = image
         elif isinstance(image, str):
             if image.startswith("http://") or image.startswith("https://"):
-                with requests.get(image, stream=True) as response:
+                with BytesIO(download_remote_media(image, timeout=3)) as bio:
-                    response.raise_for_status()
-                    with BytesIO(response.content) as bio:
                     image_obj = copy.deepcopy(Image.open(bio))
             elif image.startswith("file://"):
                 image_obj = Image.open(image[7:])

python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/moss_vl.py

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 from urllib.parse import unquote, urlparse
 
 import pybase64
-import requests
 import torch
 
 from sglang.srt.managers.schedule_batch import (
@@ -21,6 +20,7 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.base_processor import (
 from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.base_processor import (
     MultimodalSpecialTokens,
 )
+from sglang.srt.utils.common import download_remote_media
 
 
 class MossVLImageProcessor(SGLangBaseProcessor):
@@ -426,13 +426,10 @@ class MossVLImageProcessor(SGLangBaseProcessor):
 
         if value.startswith(("http://", "https://")):
             timeout = int(os.getenv("REQUEST_TIMEOUT", "10"))
-            response = requests.get(value, stream=True, timeout=timeout)
+            content = download_remote_media(value, timeout=timeout)
-            response.raise_for_status()
             suffix = os.path.splitext(urlparse(value).path)[1] or ".mp4"
             with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False, suffix=suffix) as f:
-                for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=8192):
+                f.write(content)
-                    if chunk:
-                        f.write(chunk)
                 return f.name, f.name
 
         if value.startswith("data:"):

python/sglang/srt/server_args.py

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ from sglang.srt.speculative.decoupled_spec_io import DecoupledSpecIpcConfig
 from sglang.srt.utils.common import (
     LORA_TARGET_ALL_MODULES,
     SUPPORTED_LORA_TARGET_MODULES,
+    configure_media_url_security,
     get_device,
     get_device_memory_capacity,
     get_device_sm,
@@ -2764,6 +2765,19 @@ class ServerArgs:
         "environment override when this argument is 0.",
         NS("mm"),
     ] = 0
+    allowed_media_domains: A[
+        List[str],
+        "Restrict client-supplied HTTP(S) image, video, and audio URLs to these "
+        "exact hostnames. Redirect destinations are checked against the same "
+        "allowlist. When unset, remote media from any domain is allowed.",
+        NS("mm"),
+    ] = dataclasses.field(default_factory=list)
+    media_url_max_file_size_mb: A[
+        int,
+        "Maximum size in MiB for one client-supplied remote media download. "
+        "The limit is enforced while streaming; set to 0 to disable it.",
+        NS("mm"),
+    ] = 64
     mm_preprocess_cache_size_mb: A[
         Optional[int],
         "CPU memory budget for content-addressed multimodal preprocessing "
@@ -3561,6 +3575,7 @@ class ServerArgs:
 
         self._handle_moe_runner_backend_alias()
         self._handle_return_hidden_states_mode()
+        self._handle_media_url_security()
         if self.model_path.lower() in ["none", "dummy"]:
             return
 
@@ -4051,6 +4066,13 @@ class ServerArgs:
                         f"but got {type(self.mm_process_config[key])}"
                     )
 
+    def _handle_media_url_security(self):
+        """Normalize and publish the media URL policy before workers start."""
+        self.allowed_media_domains = configure_media_url_security(
+            self.allowed_media_domains,
+            self.media_url_max_file_size_mb,
+        )
+
     def _handle_deprecated_args(self):
         if self.disable_fast_image_processor:
             if self.image_processor_backend not in {"auto", "pil"}:

python/sglang/srt/utils/common.py

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import gc
 import importlib
 import inspect
 import io
+import ipaddress
 import itertools
 import json
 import logging
@@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ from typing import (
 )
 from unittest import SkipTest
 from unittest.case import _ShouldStop
-from urllib.parse import unquote, urlparse
+from urllib.parse import unquote, urljoin, urlparse
 
 import numpy as np
 import orjson
@@ -1510,6 +1511,158 @@ def set_random_seed(seed: int) -> None:
 
 _mm_http_session = threading.local()
 
+_DEFAULT_MEDIA_URL_MAX_FILE_SIZE_MB = 64
+_MAX_MEDIA_URL_REDIRECTS = 5
+_MEDIA_URL_REDIRECT_STATUS_CODES = {301, 302, 303, 307, 308}
+_allowed_media_domains: frozenset[str] = frozenset()
+_media_url_max_file_size_bytes = _DEFAULT_MEDIA_URL_MAX_FILE_SIZE_MB * 1024 * 1024
+
+
+def _normalize_media_domain(domain: str) -> str:
+    if not isinstance(domain, str):
+        raise ValueError("allowed media domains must be strings")
+
+    domain = domain.strip().rstrip(".")
+    if not domain:
+        raise ValueError("allowed media domains cannot be empty")
+    if "://" in domain or any(char in domain for char in "/?#@"):
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Invalid allowed media domain {domain!r}: provide a hostname only"
+        )
+
+    # Brackets are URL syntax, not part of an IPv6 hostname.
+    if domain.startswith("[") and domain.endswith("]"):
+        domain = domain[1:-1]
+    try:
+        return str(ipaddress.ip_address(domain))
+    except ValueError:
+        if ":" in domain:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Invalid allowed media domain {domain!r}: ports are not supported"
+            )
+
+    try:
+        normalized = domain.encode("idna").decode("ascii").lower()
+    except UnicodeError as e:
+        raise ValueError(f"Invalid allowed media domain {domain!r}") from e
+    if not normalized:
+        raise ValueError("allowed media domains cannot be empty")
+    return normalized
+
+
+def configure_media_url_security(
+    allowed_media_domains: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None,
+    max_file_size_mb: int = _DEFAULT_MEDIA_URL_MAX_FILE_SIZE_MB,
+) -> list[str]:
+    """Configure process-wide safeguards for client-supplied media URLs.
+
+    A serving worker hosts one engine configuration, while media loading fans
+    out to worker threads. Keeping the immutable policy here makes the same
+    checks apply to image, video, audio, cache, and model-specific loaders.
+    """
+
+    if max_file_size_mb < 0:
+        raise ValueError("media_url_max_file_size_mb must be non-negative")
+
+    normalized_domains = sorted(
+        {_normalize_media_domain(domain) for domain in allowed_media_domains or []}
+    )
+    global _allowed_media_domains, _media_url_max_file_size_bytes
+    _allowed_media_domains = frozenset(normalized_domains)
+    _media_url_max_file_size_bytes = max_file_size_mb * 1024 * 1024
+    return normalized_domains
+
+
+def _assert_media_url_allowed(url: str) -> None:
+    parsed = urlparse(url)
+    if parsed.scheme not in {"http", "https"} or parsed.hostname is None:
+        raise ValueError(f"Invalid media URL: {url!r}")
+
+    hostname = _normalize_media_domain(parsed.hostname)
+    if _allowed_media_domains and hostname not in _allowed_media_domains:
+        raise ValueError(
+            "Media URL domain is not allowed. "
+            f"Allowed domains: {sorted(_allowed_media_domains)}; "
+            f"input domain: {hostname}"
+        )
+
+
+def download_remote_media(url: str, timeout: float) -> bytes:
+    """Download one HTTP(S) media object under the configured URL policy.
+
+    Redirects are followed manually so every destination is validated before
+    a connection is made. The response is streamed to enforce both the total
+    request deadline and the configured byte limit without first buffering an
+    attacker-controlled body in memory.
+    """
+
+    if timeout <= 0:
+        raise ValueError("media URL timeout must be positive")
+
+    session = get_mm_http_session()
+    deadline = time.monotonic() + timeout
+    current_url = url
+
+    for redirect_count in range(_MAX_MEDIA_URL_REDIRECTS + 1):
+        # Validate the same normalized URL representation that requests sends
+        # to urllib3. This avoids parser disagreements around backslashes and
+        # userinfo separators.
+        prepared_url = requests.Request("GET", current_url).prepare().url
+        if prepared_url is None:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid media URL: {current_url!r}")
+        _assert_media_url_allowed(prepared_url)
+
+        remaining = deadline - time.monotonic()
+        if remaining <= 0:
+            raise requests.exceptions.Timeout(
+                f"Timed out while downloading media URL: {url}"
+            )
+
+        with session.get(
+            prepared_url,
+            allow_redirects=False,
+            stream=True,
+            timeout=remaining,
+        ) as response:
+            location = response.headers.get("Location")
+            if response.status_code in _MEDIA_URL_REDIRECT_STATUS_CODES and location:
+                if redirect_count == _MAX_MEDIA_URL_REDIRECTS:
+                    raise requests.exceptions.TooManyRedirects(
+                        f"Media URL exceeded {_MAX_MEDIA_URL_REDIRECTS} redirects: {url}"
+                    )
+                current_url = urljoin(response.url, location)
+                continue
+
+            response.raise_for_status()
+            max_bytes = _media_url_max_file_size_bytes
+            content_length = response.headers.get("Content-Length")
+            if max_bytes and content_length is not None:
+                try:
+                    declared_size = int(content_length)
+                except ValueError:
+                    declared_size = None
+                if declared_size is not None and declared_size > max_bytes:
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        f"Remote media exceeds the {max_bytes} byte download limit"
+                    )
+
+            content = bytearray()
+            for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=64 * 1024):
+                if not chunk:
+                    continue
+                if time.monotonic() > deadline:
+                    raise requests.exceptions.Timeout(
+                        f"Timed out while downloading media URL: {url}"
+                    )
+                if max_bytes and len(content) + len(chunk) > max_bytes:
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        f"Remote media exceeds the {max_bytes} byte download limit"
+                    )
+                content.extend(chunk)
+            return bytes(content)
+
+    raise AssertionError("unreachable")
+
 
 def get_mm_http_session() -> requests.Session:
     """Per-thread HTTP session for multimodal downloads, to pool/reuse TCP
@@ -1548,9 +1701,7 @@ def load_audio(
         audio_file.startswith("http://") or audio_file.startswith("https://")
     ):
         timeout = int(os.getenv("REQUEST_TIMEOUT", "5"))
-        with get_mm_http_session().get(audio_file, timeout=timeout) as response:
+        source = download_remote_media(audio_file, timeout=timeout)
-            response.raise_for_status()
-            source = response.content
     elif isinstance(audio_file, str) and audio_file.startswith("file://"):
         source = unquote(urlparse(audio_file).path)
     elif isinstance(audio_file, str):
@@ -1753,13 +1904,7 @@ def get_image_bytes(image_file: Union[str, bytes]) -> bytes:
         return image_file
     if image_file.startswith(("http://", "https://")):
         timeout = int(os.getenv("REQUEST_TIMEOUT", "3"))
-        response = get_mm_http_session().get(image_file, timeout=timeout)
+        return download_remote_media(image_file, timeout=timeout)
-        try:
-            response.raise_for_status()
-            result = response.content
-        finally:
-            response.close()
-        return result
     if image_file.startswith(("file://", "/")):
         with open(image_file, "rb") as f:
             return f.read()
@@ -1785,11 +1930,7 @@ def _normalize_video_input(
     elif isinstance(video_file, str):
         if video_file.startswith(("http://", "https://")):
             timeout = int(os.getenv("REQUEST_TIMEOUT", "10"))
-            with get_mm_http_session().get(
+            return download_remote_media(video_file, timeout=timeout)
-                video_file, stream=True, timeout=timeout
-            ) as response:
-                response.raise_for_status()
-                return response.content
         elif video_file.startswith("data:"):
             _, encoded = video_file.split(",", 1)
             return pybase64.b64decode(encoded, validate=True)

test/registered/unit/managers/test_mm_process_config.py

@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ class TestBaseProcessorConfigExtraction(CustomTestCase):
         server_args.mm_preprocess_cache_size_mb = None
         server_args.tokenizer_worker_num = 1
         server_args.trust_mm_content_hashes = False
+        server_args.allowed_media_domains = []
+        server_args.media_url_max_file_size_mb = 64
 
         hf_config = MagicMock()
         mock_hf_processor = MagicMock()
@@ -178,6 +180,8 @@ class TestMultimodalFeatureTransportRuntime(CustomTestCase):
             tokenizer_worker_num=1,
             base_gpu_id=2,
             tp_size=8,
+            allowed_media_domains=[],
+            media_url_max_file_size_mb=64,
         )
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -773,6 +777,8 @@ class TestDoubleBosGuard(CustomTestCase):
         server_args.mm_preprocess_cache_size_mb = None
         server_args.tokenizer_worker_num = 1
         server_args.trust_mm_content_hashes = False
+        server_args.allowed_media_domains = []
+        server_args.media_url_max_file_size_mb = 64
 
         mock_hf_processor = MagicMock()
         mock_hf_processor.__class__.__name__ = "TestProcessor"

test/registered/unit/models/test_kimi_k25.py

@@ -599,6 +599,8 @@ def test_kimi_processor_workers_clone_the_gpu_wrapper(processor_cls, wrapper_cls
         mm_processor_worker_num=0,
         tokenizer_worker_num=1,
         base_gpu_id=0,
+        allowed_media_domains=[],
+        media_url_max_file_size_mb=64,
     )
     processor = processor_cls(
         hf_config=SimpleNamespace(media_placeholder_token_id=42),

test/registered/unit/multimodal/rust/qwen/_fixtures.py

@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ def make_processor(config, image_processor_cls=None):
         mm_processor_worker_num=1,
         tokenizer_worker_num=1,
         base_gpu_id=0,
+        allowed_media_domains=[],
+        media_url_max_file_size_mb=64,
     )
     return QwenVLImageProcessor(
         hf_config, server_args, processor, None, skip_mm_pool=True

test/registered/unit/multimodal/test_media_url_security.py

@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+"""Security tests for client-supplied remote multimodal media URLs."""
+
+import http.server
+import threading
+import unittest
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+import requests
+
+from sglang.srt.utils.common import (
+    _normalize_video_input,
+    configure_media_url_security,
+    download_remote_media,
+    get_image_bytes,
+    load_audio,
+)
+from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
+
+register_cpu_ci(est_time=10, suite="base-a-test-cpu")
+
+
+class _MediaHandler(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
+    def do_GET(self):
+        if self.path == "/media":
+            payload = b"remote-media"
+            self.send_response(200)
+            self.send_header("Content-Length", str(len(payload)))
+            self.end_headers()
+            self.wfile.write(payload)
+            return
+
+        if self.path == "/same-host-redirect":
+            self.send_response(302)
+            self.send_header("Location", "/media")
+            self.end_headers()
+            return
+
+        if self.path == "/other-host-redirect":
+            self.send_response(302)
+            self.send_header(
+                "Location",
+                f"http://localhost:{self.server.server_port}/redirect-target",
+            )
+            self.end_headers()
+            return
+
+        if self.path == "/redirect-target":
+            self.server.redirect_target_reached = True
+            self.send_response(200)
+            self.end_headers()
+            self.wfile.write(b"must-not-be-fetched")
+            return
+
+        if self.path == "/oversized":
+            self.send_response(200)
+            self.send_header("Content-Length", str(2 * 1024 * 1024))
+            self.end_headers()
+            return
+
+        if self.path == "/chunked-oversized":
+            self.send_response(200)
+            self.end_headers()
+            self.wfile.write(b"x" * (1024 * 1024 + 1))
+            return
+
+        if self.path == "/redirect-loop":
+            self.send_response(302)
+            self.send_header("Location", "/redirect-loop")
+            self.end_headers()
+            return
+
+        self.send_response(404)
+        self.end_headers()
+
+    def log_message(self, *_):
+        pass
+
+
+class TestMediaURLSecurity(unittest.TestCase):
+    @classmethod
+    def setUpClass(cls):
+        cls.server = http.server.ThreadingHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 0), _MediaHandler)
+        cls.server.redirect_target_reached = False
+        cls.thread = threading.Thread(target=cls.server.serve_forever, daemon=True)
+        cls.thread.start()
+        cls.port = cls.server.server_port
+
+    @classmethod
+    def tearDownClass(cls):
+        cls.server.shutdown()
+        cls.server.server_close()
+        cls.thread.join()
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.server.redirect_target_reached = False
+        configure_media_url_security([], max_file_size_mb=64)
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        configure_media_url_security([], max_file_size_mb=64)
+
+    def _url(self, path, host="127.0.0.1"):
+        return f"http://{host}:{self.port}{path}"
+
+    def test_unrestricted_mode_preserves_remote_media_compatibility(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            download_remote_media(self._url("/media", host="localhost"), timeout=5),
+            b"remote-media",
+        )
+
+    def test_exact_domain_allowlist(self):
+        configure_media_url_security(["127.0.0.1"], max_file_size_mb=64)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            download_remote_media(self._url("/media"), timeout=5), b"remote-media"
+        )
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "not allowed"):
+            download_remote_media(self._url("/media", host="localhost"), timeout=5)
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "not allowed"):
+            download_remote_media("http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data", timeout=5)
+
+    def test_redirect_destination_is_checked_before_fetch(self):
+        configure_media_url_security(["127.0.0.1"], max_file_size_mb=64)
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "not allowed"):
+            download_remote_media(self._url("/other-host-redirect"), timeout=5)
+        self.assertFalse(self.server.redirect_target_reached)
+
+    def test_same_domain_redirect_is_allowed(self):
+        configure_media_url_security(["127.0.0.1"], max_file_size_mb=64)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            download_remote_media(self._url("/same-host-redirect"), timeout=5),
+            b"remote-media",
+        )
+
+    def test_redirect_count_is_bounded(self):
+        configure_media_url_security(["127.0.0.1"], max_file_size_mb=64)
+        with self.assertRaises(requests.exceptions.TooManyRedirects):
+            download_remote_media(self._url("/redirect-loop"), timeout=5)
+
+    def test_declared_oversized_response_is_rejected(self):
+        configure_media_url_security(["127.0.0.1"], max_file_size_mb=1)
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "download limit"):
+            download_remote_media(self._url("/oversized"), timeout=5)
+
+    def test_streamed_oversized_response_is_rejected(self):
+        configure_media_url_security(["127.0.0.1"], max_file_size_mb=1)
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "download limit"):
+            download_remote_media(self._url("/chunked-oversized"), timeout=5)
+
+    def test_invalid_allowlist_entries_are_rejected(self):
+        for domain in (
+            "https://media.example.com",
+            "media.example.com/path",
+            "media.example.com:443",
+            "",
+        ):
+            with self.subTest(domain=domain):
+                with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+                    configure_media_url_security([domain], max_file_size_mb=64)
+
+    def test_backslash_userinfo_parser_confusion_cannot_bypass_allowlist(self):
+        configure_media_url_security(["safe.example.org"], max_file_size_mb=64)
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "not allowed"):
+            download_remote_media(
+                r"https://evil.example\@safe.example.org/media", timeout=5
+            )
+
+    def test_all_common_loaders_share_the_policy(self):
+        blocked = ValueError("media URL domain is not allowed")
+        with patch(
+            "sglang.srt.utils.common.download_remote_media", side_effect=blocked
+        ) as download:
+            for loader in (
+                get_image_bytes,
+                _normalize_video_input,
+                load_audio,
+            ):
+                with self.subTest(loader=loader.__name__):
+                    with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "not allowed"):
+                        loader("https://blocked.example/media")
+            self.assertEqual(download.call_count, 3)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()

test/registered/unit/test_server_args_migration.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import argparse
 import unittest
 
 from sglang.srt.server_args import ServerArgs
+from sglang.srt.utils.common import configure_media_url_security
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
 from sglang.test.test_utils import CustomTestCase
 
@@ -79,6 +80,33 @@ class TestServerArgsAnnotatedCli(CustomTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(sa.extra_metric_labels, {"k": "v"})
         self.assertEqual(sa.forward_hooks, [{"type": "test"}])
 
+    def test_media_url_security_args(self):
+        try:
+            sa = self._parse(
+                [
+                    "--allowed-media-domains",
+                    "Media.Example.com.",
+                    "127.0.0.1",
+                    "--media-url-max-file-size-mb",
+                    "32",
+                ]
+            )
+            self.assertEqual(
+                sa.allowed_media_domains, ["127.0.0.1", "media.example.com"]
+            )
+            self.assertEqual(sa.media_url_max_file_size_mb, 32)
+        finally:
+            configure_media_url_security([], max_file_size_mb=64)
+
+    def test_media_url_security_args_reject_invalid_values(self):
+        try:
+            with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+                self._parse(["--allowed-media-domains", "https://media.example.com"])
+            with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+                self._parse(["--media-url-max-file-size-mb", "-1"])
+        finally:
+            configure_media_url_security([], max_file_size_mb=64)
+
     def test_literal_auto_derives_choices(self):
         """Literal type annotations produce argparse choices automatically."""
         sa = self._parse(