GHSA-9pgf-384g-p7mv
Nuxt: Unauthenticated CPU exhaustion parsing and hashing the Nuxt island endpoint body before hash validation
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
The internal island renderer endpoint (`/__nuxt_island/...`) decodes and hashes attacker-controlled request input before it validates the URL-resident hash. An unauthenticated `POST /__nuxt_island/<name>_<anything>.json` with a large JSON body (for example ~4.6 MB / 150k keys) is fully read, `destr`-parsed, and run through `ohash` before the request is rejected with a 400. Because Nitro runs on a single event loop, this both wastes CPU on the doomed request and delays every concurrent request. A low request rate is enough to degrade or stall the server. No valid hash and no authentication are required.
### Patches
Fixed in `[email protected]` and `[email protected]`. The island handler now enforces a raw body-size cap (`413`) and a JSON nesting-depth cap (`400`) before parsing or hashing, so oversized or deeply nested input is rejected cheaply.
### Workarounds
Put a small request-body limit in front of `/__nuxt_island/` at your reverse proxy / edge (islands legitimately send only a compact props payload), or disable server components if unused.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/security/advisories/GHSA-9pgf-384g-p7mv
- https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/commit/4e35ae9babd94be53246e31200232d48438bb34e
- https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/commit/668cdfdfda41849ed11c1ee5e2067a11fc103b22
- https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt
- https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/releases/tag/v3.21.10
- https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/releases/tag/v4.5.1