Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data Affecting nuxt package, versions >=3.0.0 <3.16.0

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data. An attacker can disrupt the availability of a site by sending a crafted HTTP request such as https://mysite.com/?/_payload.json that results in a poisoned CDN cache. This attack leverages the server's failure to properly handle specific query strings in URLs, allowing the cached poisoned response to be served to future visitors indefinitely.

This is only exploitable if the CDN ignores the payload in or after URL query parameters in its cache keys.

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

• High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

• Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

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