CVE-2026-29772

MEDIUM

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

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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