CVE-2023-50249 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in @sentry/astro. A fix is available for @sentry/astro — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Sentry's Astro SDK vulnerable to ReDoS
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2023-50249 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,636 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.
@sentry/astronpmDescription
Impact
A ReDoS (Regular expression Denial of Service) vulnerability has been identified in Sentry's Astro SDK 7.78.0-7.86.0. Under certain conditions, this vulnerability allows an attacker to cause excessive computation times on the server, leading to denial of service (DoS).
Applications that are using Sentry's Astro SDK are affected if:
- They're using Sentry instrumentation:
- they have manually registered Sentry Middleware (affected versions 7.78.0-7.86.0);
- or configured Astro in SSR (server) or hybrid mode, use Astro 3.5.0 and newer and didn’t disable the automatic server instrumentation (affected versions 7.82.0-7.86.0).
- They have configured routes with at least two path params (e.g.
/foo/[p1]/bar/[p2]).
Patches
The problem has been patched in @sentry/[email protected]. The corresponding PR: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/pull/9815
Workarounds
We strongly recommend upgrading to the latest SDK version. However, if it's not possible, the steps to mitigate the vulnerability without upgrade are:
- disable auto instrumentation if you're using Astro 3.5.0 or newer
- and remove the manually added Sentry middleware (if it was added before).
After these changes, Sentry error reporting will still be functional, but some details such as server-side transactions (and consequently, distributed traces between client and server) will be omitted. We therefore still recommend to update to 7.87.0 as soon as you can.
References
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | @sentry/astro | ≥ 7.78.0&&< 7.87.0 | 7.87.0npm install @sentry/astro@7.87.0 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for @sentry/astro, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update @sentry/astro to 7.87.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2023-50249 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2023-50249 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2023-50249. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2023-50249 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2023-50249 across npm dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.