CVE-2026-128074nuxt regular expression denial of service
CVE-2026-128074 is a regular expression denial of service in nuxt, rated medium (6.9 on CVSS 4.0).
Why this priority: Medium severity, with no exploitation signal.
Published · Updated · NVD status: Awaiting Analysis
What it is
A crafted string makes a regular expression run for a very long time.
How it is reached
An attacker can exploit it over the network, without an account, and nobody has to click anything.
What an attacker gains
The direct impact is limited: partial access to data or a partial outage. In practice, this kind of flaw lets an attacker exhaust CPU, memory or connections until the service stops answering.
Is it being exploited?
There is no public report of exploitation yet.
What to do
- Upgrade nuxt to 4.6.4 or later.
- Until it is patched, keep it off the internet or behind a VPN, allowlist or authenticating proxy.
Description from NVD
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.
What this means for your architecture.
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Components it touches
- Public entry points and shared services that must stay up. The flaw sits between untrusted traffic and shared capacity.
Trust boundaries in play
- Internet-facing entry points. No account is needed. Any instance reachable from outside your perimeter, through a load balancer, gateway, VPN or exposed admin port, is in scope.
- Between untrusted traffic and shared capacity. An attacker who crosses it can exhaust CPU, memory or connections until the service stops answering.
Questions to answer about your own systems
- Where does nuxt run in your systems, and at which version?
- Which of those instances can be reached from the internet or partner networks?
- What can it reach once compromised: which data stores, secrets and services?
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Sources
- CVE records and CVSS scores from the NVD CVE API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Exploitation status from CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
- Exploit likelihood from FIRST’s Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), refreshed daily.
- Explanations are written by Veriom from fixed templates over each record’s data, not by a person reviewing each CVE. Descriptions are quoted from the records as published.