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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-71321 EUVD-2026-53658GHSA-9pgf-384g-p7mv

Nuxt: Unauthenticated CPU exhaustion parsing and hashing the Nuxt island endpoint body before hash validation

Published Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Aug 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Nuxt is an open-source web development framework for Vue.js. From 3.1.0 until 3.21.10 and 4.5.1, the internal island renderer endpoint `/__nuxt_island/...` decodes and hashes attacker-controlled JSON body input with destr and ohash before validating the URL-resident hash. An unauthenticated `POST /__nuxt_island/_.json` with a large JSON body is fully read, parsed, hashed, and then rejected, which wastes CPU on Nitro single event loop and delays concurrent requests. No valid hash and no authentication are required. This issue is fixed in 3.21.10 and 4.5.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nuxt nuxt >= 4.0.0, < 4.5.1, >= 3.1.0, < 3.21.10 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm nuxt >= 4.0.0, < 4.5.1 4.5.1 GHSA-9pgf-384g-p7mv
npm nuxt >= 3.1.0, < 3.21.10 3.21.10 GHSA-9pgf-384g-p7mv

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