The internal island renderer endpoint (/ nuxt island/...) decodes and hashes attacker-controlled request input before it validates the URL-resident hash. An unauthenticated POST / nuxt island/<name> <anything>.json with a large JSON body (for example ~4.6 MB / 150k keys) is fully read, destr-parsed, and run through ohash before the request is rejected with a 400. Because Nitro runs on a single event loop, this both wastes CPU on the doomed request and delays every concurrent request. A low request rate is enough to degrade or stall the server. No valid hash and no authentication are required.

Fixed in nuxt@4.5.1 and nuxt@3.21.10. The island handler now enforces a raw body-size cap (413) and a JSON nesting-depth cap (400) before parsing or hashing, so oversized or deeply nested input is rejected cheaply.

Put a small request-body limit in front of / nuxt island/ at your reverse proxy / edge (islands legitimately send only a compact props payload), or disable server components if unused.