diff --git a/node-src/lib/findChangedDependencies.test.ts b/node-src/lib/findChangedDependencies.test.ts
index 7fc77c1d4..d712deff3 100644
--- a/node-src/lib/findChangedDependencies.test.ts
+++ b/node-src/lib/findChangedDependencies.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+import { statSync as unMockedStatSync } from 'fs';
 import { buildDepTreeFromFiles } from 'snyk-nodejs-lockfile-parser';
-import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, Mock, vi } from 'vitest';
 
 import { Context } from '..';
 import * as git from '../git/git';
@@ -9,6 +10,10 @@ import TestLogger from './testLogger';
 vi.mock('snyk-nodejs-lockfile-parser');
 vi.mock('yarn-or-npm');
 vi.mock('../git/git');
+vi.mock('fs');
+
+const statSync = unMockedStatSync as Mock;
+statSync.mockReturnValue({ size: 1 });
 
 const getRepositoryRoot = vi.mocked(git.getRepositoryRoot);
 const checkoutFile = vi.mocked(git.checkoutFile);
diff --git a/node-src/lib/getDependencies.test.ts b/node-src/lib/getDependencies.test.ts
index 30ab767eb..68190405d 100644
--- a/node-src/lib/getDependencies.test.ts
+++ b/node-src/lib/getDependencies.test.ts
@@ -1,16 +1,22 @@
+import { statSync as unMockedStatSync } from 'fs';
 import path from 'path';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
-import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { describe, expect, it, Mock, vi } from 'vitest';
 
 import packageJson from '../__mocks__/dependencyChanges/plain-package.json';
 import { checkoutFile } from '../git/git';
-import { getDependencies } from './getDependencies';
+import { getDependencies, MAX_LOCK_FILE_SIZE } from './getDependencies';
 import TestLogger from './testLogger';
 
 const __dirname = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
 
 const ctx = { log: new TestLogger() } as any;
 
+vi.mock('fs');
+
+const statSync = unMockedStatSync as Mock;
+statSync.mockReturnValue({ size: 1 });
+
 describe('getDependencies', () => {
   it('should return a set of dependencies', async () => {
     const dependencies = await getDependencies(ctx, {
@@ -99,4 +105,38 @@ describe('getDependencies', () => {
       ])
     );
   });
+
+  it('should bail if the lock file is too large to parse', async () => {
+    statSync.mockReturnValue({ size: MAX_LOCK_FILE_SIZE + 1000 });
+
+    await expect(() =>
+      getDependencies(ctx, {
+        rootPath: path.join(__dirname, '../__mocks__/dependencyChanges'),
+        manifestPath: 'plain-package.json',
+        lockfilePath: 'plain-yarn.lock',
+      })
+    ).rejects.toThrowError();
+  });
+
+  it('should use MAX_LOCK_FILE_SIZE environment variable, if set', async () => {
+    vi.stubEnv('MAX_LOCK_FILE_SIZE', (MAX_LOCK_FILE_SIZE + 2000).toString());
+    statSync.mockReturnValue({ size: MAX_LOCK_FILE_SIZE + 1000 });
+
+    const dependencies = await getDependencies(ctx, {
+      rootPath: path.join(__dirname, '../__mocks__/dependencyChanges'),
+      manifestPath: 'plain-package.json',
+      lockfilePath: 'plain-yarn.lock',
+    });
+
+    const [dep] = dependencies;
+    expect(dep).toMatch(/^[\w/@-]+@@[\d.]+$/);
+
+    const dependencyNames = [...dependencies].map((dependency) => dependency.split('@@')[0]);
+    expect(dependencyNames).toEqual(
+      expect.arrayContaining([
+        ...Object.keys(packageJson.dependencies),
+        ...Object.keys(packageJson.devDependencies),
+      ])
+    );
+  });
 });
diff --git a/node-src/lib/getDependencies.ts b/node-src/lib/getDependencies.ts
index 63340dec9..23c7b5695 100644
--- a/node-src/lib/getDependencies.ts
+++ b/node-src/lib/getDependencies.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
+import { statSync } from 'fs';
+import path from 'path';
 import { buildDepTreeFromFiles, PkgTree } from 'snyk-nodejs-lockfile-parser';
 
 import { Context } from '../types';
 
+export const MAX_LOCK_FILE_SIZE = 10_485_760; // 10 MB
+
 export const getDependencies = async (
   ctx: Context,
   {
@@ -19,6 +23,10 @@ export const getDependencies = async (
     strictOutOfSync?: boolean;
   }
 ) => {
+  // We can run into OOM errors if the lock file is too large. Therefore, we bail early and skip
+  // lock file parsing because some TurboSnap is better than no TurboSnap.
+  ensureLockFileSize(ctx, path.resolve(rootPath, lockfilePath));
+
   try {
     const headTree = await buildDepTreeFromFiles(
       rootPath,
@@ -42,3 +50,14 @@ function flattenDependencyTree(tree: PkgTree['dependencies'], results = new Set<
 
   return results;
 }
+
+function ensureLockFileSize(ctx: Context, fullPath: string) {
+  const maxLockFileSize =
+    Number.parseInt(process.env.MAX_LOCK_FILE_SIZE ?? '') || MAX_LOCK_FILE_SIZE;
+
+  const stats = statSync(fullPath);
+  if (stats.size > maxLockFileSize) {
+    ctx.log.warn({ fullPath }, 'Lock file too large to parse, skipping');
+    throw new Error('Lock file too large to parse');
+  }
+}