Unauthenticated server crash via unbounded JSON parsing
Published Mar 24, 2026 · Updated Mar 24, 2026
Denial of service in Astro before 10.0.0 allows remote attackers to crash Node standalone SSR servers with a crafted POST body. The Server Islands handler calls request.text() and JSON.parse() without a body-size limit, amplifying arrays of small objects into a large V8 heap graph. The route exists on every Astro SSR app using the Node standalone adapter and parses the body before validating the island name, so no authentication or valid name is required.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Astro before 10.0.0 allows remote attackers to crash Node standalone SSR servers with a crafted POST body. The Server Islands handler calls request.text() and JSON.parse() without a body-size limit, amplifying arrays of small objects into a large V8 heap graph. The route exists on every Astro SSR app using the Node standalone adapter and parses the body before validating the island name, so no authentication or valid name is required.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-29772
- Published
- Mar 24, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 24, 2026
- Vendor
- Astro
- Product
- Astro
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 24, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 24, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=< 10.0.0
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Server Islands memory-exhaustion crash PoCfunctional · demonstrated
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