# CVE-2026-29772: Astro: Memory exhaustion DoS due to missing request body size limit in Server Islands

- Also known as: GHSA-3RMJ-9M5H-8FPV
- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 10.0.0
- Published: 2026-03-24 · Updated: 2026-03-24

## Affected

- withastro astro: fixed in 10.0.0
- @astrojs/node (npm): fixed in 10.0.0

## Description

Astro is a web framework. Prior to version 10.0.0, Astro's Server Islands POST handler buffers and parses the full request body as JSON without enforcing a size limit. Because JSON.parse() allocates a V8 heap object for every element in the input, a crafted payload of many small JSON objects achieves ~15x memory amplification (wire bytes to heap bytes), allowing a single unauthenticated request to exhaust the process heap and crash the server. The /_server-islands/[name] route is registered on all Astro SSR apps regardless of whether any component uses server:defer, and the body is parsed before the island name is validated, so any Astro SSR app with the Node standalone adapter is affected. This issue has been patched in version 10.0.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on withastro astro, @astrojs/node, upgrade to a fixed version (10.0.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/withastro/astro/security/advisories/GHSA-3rmj-9m5h-8fpv

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