CVE-2026-29772

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

Published Mar 24, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-3rmj-9m5h-8fpv Astro: Memory exhaustion DoS due to missing request body size limit in Server Islands
History
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First Time appeared Astro
Astro \@astrojs\/node
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:astro:\@astrojs\/node:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
Vendors & Products Astro
Astro \@astrojs\/node
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First Time appeared Withastro
Withastro astro
Vendors & Products Withastro
Withastro astro
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Astro: Memory exhaustion DoS due to missing request body size limit in Server Islands
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Mar 24, 2026, 8:17 PM
Reserved
Mar 4, 2026, 4:26 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Mar 24, 2026, 7:16 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 10:29 AM