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graphql Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 20, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 12, 2023

Package

npm graphql (npm)

Affected versions

>= 16.3.0, < 16.8.1

Patched versions

16.8.1

Description

Versions of the package graphql from 16.3.0 and before 16.8.1 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to insufficient checks in the OverlappingFieldsCanBeMergedRule.ts file when parsing large queries. This vulnerability allows an attacker to degrade system performance.

Note: It was not proven that this vulnerability can crash the process.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 20, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 20, 2023
Reviewed Sep 21, 2023
Last updated Nov 12, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS score

0.064%
(29th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-26144

GHSA ID

GHSA-9pv7-vfvm-6vr7

Source code

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