CVE-2026-29772CWE-770

Astro: Memory exhaustion DoS due to missing request body size limit in Server Islands

Medium · published March 24, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
37.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Astro is a web framework. Prior to version 10.0.0, Astro's Server Islands POST handler buffers and parses the full request body as JSON without enforcing a size limit. Because JSON.parse() allocates a V8 heap object for every element in the input, a crafted payload of many small JSON objects achieves ~15x memory amplification (wire bytes to heap bytes), allowing a single unauthenticated request to exhaust the process heap and crash the server. The /_server-islands/[name] route is registered on all Astro SSR apps regardless of whether any component uses server:defer, and the body is parsed before the island name is validated, so any Astro SSR app with the Node standalone adapter is affected. This issue has been patched in version 10.0.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00445 · 37.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-03-24T18:38Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 MAR 18:38Z
    Astro: Memory exhaustion DoS due to missing request body size limit in Server Islands
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