diff --git a/CHANGES/532.feature b/CHANGES/532.feature
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e9231dfdb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/532.feature
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Added a limit of 4mb to the size of manifests and signatures as a safeguard to OOM DoS attack
+during sync tasks and updated the Nginx snippet to also limit the size of the body for these endpoints.
diff --git a/pulp_container/app/downloaders.py b/pulp_container/app/downloaders.py
index d9c6fff1c..0c317da9b 100644
--- a/pulp_container/app/downloaders.py
+++ b/pulp_container/app/downloaders.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import aiohttp
 import asyncio
+import fnmatch
 import json
 import re
 
@@ -10,7 +11,14 @@
 
 from pulpcore.plugin.download import DownloaderFactory, HttpDownloader
 
-from pulp_container.constants import V2_ACCEPT_HEADERS
+from pulp_container.constants import (
+    MANIFEST_MEDIA_TYPES,
+    MANIFEST_PAYLOAD_MAX_SIZE,
+    MEGABYTE,
+    SIGNATURE_PAYLOAD_MAX_SIZE,
+    V2_ACCEPT_HEADERS,
+)
+from pulp_container.app.exceptions import InvalidRequest
 
 log = getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -20,7 +28,41 @@
 )
 
 
-class RegistryAuthHttpDownloader(HttpDownloader):
+class ValidateResourceSizeMixin:
+    async def validate_resource_size(self, response, request_method=None):
+        """
+        Verify if the constrained resources are not exceeding the maximum size allowed.
+        """
+        if request_method == "head":
+            return
+
+        content_type = response.content_type
+        max_resource_size = 0
+        is_cosign_tag = fnmatch.fnmatch(response.url.name, "sha256-*.sig")
+
+        if isinstance(self, NoAuthSignatureDownloader) or is_cosign_tag:
+            max_resource_size = SIGNATURE_PAYLOAD_MAX_SIZE
+            content_type = "Signature"
+        elif content_type in MANIFEST_MEDIA_TYPES.IMAGE + MANIFEST_MEDIA_TYPES.LIST:
+            max_resource_size = MANIFEST_PAYLOAD_MAX_SIZE
+            content_type = "Manifest"
+        else:
+            return
+
+        total_size = 0
+        buffer = b""
+        async for chunk in response.content.iter_chunked(MEGABYTE):
+            total_size += len(chunk)
+            buffer += chunk
+            if total_size > max_resource_size:
+                raise InvalidRequest(
+                    f"{content_type} size exceeded the {max_resource_size} bytes "
+                    f"limit ({total_size} bytes)."
+                )
+        response.content.unread_data(buffer)
+
+
+class RegistryAuthHttpDownloader(HttpDownloader, ValidateResourceSizeMixin):
     """
     Custom Downloader that automatically handles Token Based and Basic Authentication.
 
@@ -77,6 +119,7 @@ async def _run(self, handle_401=True, extra_data=None):
         async with session_http_method(
             self.url, headers=headers, proxy=self.proxy, proxy_auth=self.proxy_auth
         ) as response:
+            await self.validate_resource_size(response, http_method)
             try:
                 response.raise_for_status()
             except ClientResponseError as e:
@@ -193,7 +236,7 @@ async def _handle_head_response(self, response):
         )
 
 
-class NoAuthSignatureDownloader(HttpDownloader):
+class NoAuthSignatureDownloader(HttpDownloader, ValidateResourceSizeMixin):
     """A downloader class suited for signature downloads."""
 
     def raise_for_status(self, response):
@@ -208,6 +251,20 @@ def raise_for_status(self, response):
         else:
             response.raise_for_status()
 
+    async def _run(self, extra_data=None):
+        if self.download_throttler:
+            await self.download_throttler.acquire()
+        async with self.session.get(
+            self.url, proxy=self.proxy, proxy_auth=self.proxy_auth, auth=self.auth
+        ) as response:
+            await self.validate_resource_size(response)
+            self.raise_for_status(response)
+            to_return = await self._handle_response(response)
+            await response.release()
+        if self._close_session_on_finalize:
+            await self.session.close()
+        return to_return
+
 
 class NoAuthDownloaderFactory(DownloaderFactory):
     """
diff --git a/pulp_container/app/registry_api.py b/pulp_container/app/registry_api.py
index 682c7cb2e..71a81088d 100644
--- a/pulp_container/app/registry_api.py
+++ b/pulp_container/app/registry_api.py
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@
     EMPTY_BLOB,
     SIGNATURE_API_EXTENSION_VERSION,
     SIGNATURE_HEADER,
-    SIGNATURE_PAYLOAD_MAX_SIZE,
     SIGNATURE_TYPE,
     V2_ACCEPT_HEADERS,
 )
@@ -1426,7 +1425,7 @@ def put(self, request, path, pk):
         except models.Manifest.DoesNotExist:
             raise ManifestNotFound(reference=pk)
 
-        signature_payload = request.META["wsgi.input"].read(SIGNATURE_PAYLOAD_MAX_SIZE)
+        signature_payload = request.META["wsgi.input"].read()
         try:
             signature_dict = json.loads(signature_payload)
         except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
diff --git a/pulp_container/app/webserver_snippets/nginx.conf b/pulp_container/app/webserver_snippets/nginx.conf
index a5c27afdd..29cccad71 100644
--- a/pulp_container/app/webserver_snippets/nginx.conf
+++ b/pulp_container/app/webserver_snippets/nginx.conf
@@ -38,3 +38,25 @@ location /token/ {
     proxy_redirect off;
     proxy_pass http://pulp-api;
 }
+
+location ~* /v2/.*/manifests/.*$ {
+    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
+    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
+    # we don't want nginx trying to do something clever with
+    # redirects, we set the Host: header above already.
+    proxy_redirect off;
+    proxy_pass http://pulp-api;
+    client_max_body_size 4m;
+}
+
+location ~* /extensions/v2/.*/signatures/.*$ {
+    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
+    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
+    # we don't want nginx trying to do something clever with
+    # redirects, we set the Host: header above already.
+    proxy_redirect off;
+    proxy_pass http://pulp-api;
+    client_max_body_size 4m;
+}
diff --git a/pulp_container/constants.py b/pulp_container/constants.py
index 8d6463481..b58431293 100644
--- a/pulp_container/constants.py
+++ b/pulp_container/constants.py
@@ -69,5 +69,6 @@
 
 MEGABYTE = 1_000_000
 SIGNATURE_PAYLOAD_MAX_SIZE = 4 * MEGABYTE
+MANIFEST_PAYLOAD_MAX_SIZE = 4 * MEGABYTE
 
 SIGNATURE_API_EXTENSION_VERSION = 2