CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-43801
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-12-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-754
Description
Mercurius is a GraphQL adapter for Fastify. Any users from [email protected] to 8.11.1 are subjected to a denial of service attack by sending a malformed JSON to `/graphql` unless they are using a custom error handler. The vulnerability has been fixed in https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/pull/678 and shipped as v8.11.2. As a workaround users may use a custom error handler.
Affected configurations
• mercurius project mercurius (>= 8.10.0 < 8.11.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions weakness
References
- https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/issues/677 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/pull/678/commits/732b2f895312da8deadd7b173dcd2d141d54b223 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/security/advisories/GHSA-273r-rm8g-7f3x Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/issues/677 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/pull/678/commits/732b2f895312da8deadd7b173dcd2d141d54b223 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/security/advisories/GHSA-273r-rm8g-7f3x Patch, Third Party Advisory