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High · 7.5 Public exploit CVE-2025-27415 EUVD-2025-6776GHSA-jvhm-gjrh-3h93

Nuxt allows DOS via cache poisoning with payload rendering response

Published Mar 19, 2025 · Updated Mar 19, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Nuxt is an open-source web development framework for Vue.js. Prior to 3.16.0, by sending a crafted HTTP request to a server behind an CDN, it is possible in some circumstances to poison the CDN cache and highly impacts the availability of a site. It is possible to craft a request, such as https://mysite.com/?/_payload.json which will be rendered as JSON. If the CDN in front of a Nuxt site ignores the query string when determining whether to cache a route, then this JSON response could be served to future visitors to the site. An attacker can perform this attack to a vulnerable site in order to make a site unavailable indefinitely. It is also possible in the case where the cache will be reset to make a small script to send a request each X seconds (=caching duration) so that the cache is permanently poisoned making the site completely unavailable. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.16.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nuxt nuxt >= 3.0.0, < 3.16.0 —

Public exploits

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Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm nuxt >= 3.0.0, < 3.16.0 3.16.0 GHSA-jvhm-gjrh-3h93

References