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Summary

  • Add blog post explaining the vulnerability where stack overflow errors became uncatchable when async_hooks was enabled
  • Affects React Server Components, Next.js, and APM tools
  • Documents the fix included in Node.js 20.20.0, 22.22.0, 24.13.0, and 25.3.0

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Pull request overview

This PR adds a comprehensive blog post documenting a critical DoS vulnerability affecting Node.js applications that use async_hooks, including React Server Components, Next.js, and all major APM tools. The vulnerability caused stack overflow errors to become uncatchable when async_hooks was enabled, leading to immediate process crashes with exit code 7.

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  • Added detailed vulnerability disclosure blog post explaining the async_hooks stack exhaustion issue
  • Documents the fix included in Node.js 20.20.0, 22.22.0, 24.13.0, and 25.3.0
  • Provides technical deep dive, code examples, timeline, and mitigation guidance

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joyeecheung commented Jan 13, 2026

I have some leftover suggestions from the original draft, I'll duplicate them here..

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mcollina commented Jan 13, 2026

@joyeecheung @marco-ippolito @RafaelGSS ping

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the new-post.md and npmrc file should be dropped

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blog: add DoS mitigation post for async_hooks stack exhaustion
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Add blog post explaining the vulnerability where stack overflow errors
became uncatchable when async_hooks was enabled, affecting React Server
Components, Next.js, and APM tools.

Co-Authored-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
@mcollina mcollina force-pushed the blog/january-2026-dos-mitigation-async-hooks branch from 0d18259 to e095ef6 Compare January 13, 2026 16:23
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@marco-ippolito @RafaelGSS @joyeecheung ptal

@mcollina mcollina force-pushed the blog/january-2026-dos-mitigation-async-hooks branch from 6c101fd to 66b49c1 Compare January 13, 2026 17:02
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@joyeecheung ping

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