CVE-2026-128074

Nuxt payload URL generation has quadratic cost for repeated slashes in the request path

  • Medium 6.9

Description

Nuxt is an open-source web development framework for Vue.js. From 4.6.0 until 4.6.4, _payload.json URL generation and the experimental early-404 path use a trailing-slash regular expression whose work grows quadratically with a long run of slash characters. An unauthenticated request can synchronously occupy the Node.js event loop and delay other requests when server-side rendering uses isr, swr, or cache route rules, or when experimental.early404 is enabled. Applications without those route rules and without experimental.early404, fully prerendered applications, and client-only applications are unaffected; the impact is limited to availability. This issue is fixed in version 4.6.4.

Key facts

Published
13 Nov 2026
Last changed
13 Nov 2026
Assigned by
GitHub_M
EPSS
0.291% likely to be exploited in the next 30 days, higher than 21.989% of CVEs (scores for 15 Nov 2026)

Severity scores

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  • 6.9CVSS 4.0, Mediumfrom the CNA (GitHub_M)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Historical context and remediation

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Affected products

VendorProductVersions
nuxtnuxt
  • >= 4.6.0, < 4.6.4 (affected)

Timeline

  1. 13 Nov 2026 Published

Weakness

References