Nuxt: Unauthenticated CPU exhaustion parsing and hashing the Nuxt island endpoint body before hash validation
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 65% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
nuxt · nuxtReferences
https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/commit/4e35ae9babd94be53246e31200232d48438bb34ehttps://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/commit/668cdfdfda41849ed11c1ee5e2067a11fc103b22https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/releases/tag/v3.21.10https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/releases/tag/v4.5.1https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/security/advisories/GHSA-9pgf-384g-p7mv