CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-41317
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-05
- 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 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-755
Description
The Apollo Router is a configurable, high-performance graph router written in Rust to run a federated supergraph that uses Apollo Federation 2. Affected versions are subject to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) type vulnerability which causes the Router to panic and terminate when GraphQL Subscriptions are enabled. It can be triggered when **all of the following conditions are met**: 1. Running Apollo Router v1.28.0, v1.28.1 or v1.29.0 ("impacted versions"); **and** 2. The Supergraph schema provided to the Router (either via Apollo Uplink or explicitly via other configuration) **has a `subscription` type** with root-fields defined; **and** 3. The YAML configuration provided to the Router **has subscriptions enabled** (they are _disabled_ by default), either by setting `enabled: true` _or_ by setting a valid `mode` within the `subscriptions` object (as seen in subscriptions' documentation); **and** 4. An anonymous (i.e., un-named) `subscription` operation (e.g., `subscription { ... }`) is received by the Router If **all four** of these criteria are met, the impacted versions will panic and terminate. There is no data-privacy risk or sensitive-information exposure aspect to this vulnerability. This is fixed in Apollo Router v1.29.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Updating to v1.29.1 should be a clear and simple upgrade path for those running impacted versions. However, if Subscriptions are **not** necessary for your Graph – but are enabled via configuration — then disabling subscriptions is another option to mitigate the risk.
Affected configurations
• apollographql apollo router (>= 1.28.0 < 1.29.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions weakness
References
- https://github.com/apollographql/router/commit/b295c103dd86c57c848397d32e8094edfa8502aa Patch
- https://github.com/apollographql/router/releases/tag/v1.29.1 Release Notes
- https://github.com/apollographql/router/security/advisories/GHSA-w8vq-3hf9-xppx Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/apollographql/router/commit/b295c103dd86c57c848397d32e8094edfa8502aa Patch
- https://github.com/apollographql/router/releases/tag/v1.29.1 Release Notes
- https://github.com/apollographql/router/security/advisories/GHSA-w8vq-3hf9-xppx Vendor Advisory