CVE-2026-29772
MEDIUMAstro: Memory exhaustion DoS due to missing request body size limit in Server Islands
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
Scores
CVSS v3
5.9
EPSS
0.0002
EPSS Percentile
5.0%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-770
Status
published
Products (3)
astro/\@astrojs\/node
9.0.0 - 10.0.0
astrojs/node
0 - 10.0.0npm
withastro/astro
< 10.0.0
Published
Mar 24, 2026
Tracked Since
Mar 25, 2026