CVE-2026-71321 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.08.2026 Published: 05.08.2026 Updated: 06.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor nuxt
Product nuxt
Versions
  • Version >= 4.0.0, < 4.5.1 is affected
  • Version >= 3.1.0, < 3.21.10 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity CWE
  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE