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GHSA-cg3c-245w-728m GraphQL query operations security can be bypassed

HIGH Published 2025-04-04 Modified 2025-08-29 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-31481
Ecosystem
Packagist
Packages
api-platform/graphql, api-platform/core
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-863
Reviewed
2025-04-04

Affected packages

• Packagist api-platform/graphql: >= 4.0.0-alpha.1, < 4.0.22 → fixed in 4.0.22 • Packagist api-platform/core: >= 4.0.0-alpha.1, < 4.0.22 → fixed in 4.0.22 • Packagist api-platform/graphql: < 3.4.17 → fixed in 3.4.17 • Packagist api-platform/core: < 3.4.17 → fixed in 3.4.17 • Packagist api-platform/graphql: >= 4.1.0-alpha.1, < 4.1.5 → fixed in 4.1.5 • Packagist api-platform/core: >= 4.1.0-alpha.1, < 4.1.5 → fixed in 4.1.5

Description

Summary Using the Relay special `node` type you can bypass the configured security on an operation. Details Here is an example of how to apply security configurations for the GraphQL operations: ```php [ApiResource( security: "is_granted('ROLE_USER')", operations: [ /* ... */ ], graphQlOperations: [ new Query(security: "is_granted('ROLE_USER')"), //... ], )] class Book { /* ... */ } ``` This indeed checks `is_granted('ROLE_USER')` as expected for a GraphQL query like the following: ```php ‌query { book(id: "/books/1") { title } } ``` But the security check can be bypassed by using the `node` field (that is available by default) on the root query type like that: ```php ‌query { node(id: "/books/1") { ... on Book { title } } } ``` This does not execute any security checks and can therefore be used to access any entity without restrictions by everyone that has access to the API. Impact Everyone using GraphQl with the `security` attribute. Not sure whereas this works with custom resolvers nor if this also applies on mutation. Patched at https://github.com/api-platform/core/commit/60747cc8c2fb855798c923b5537888f8d0969568

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-31481 API Platform Core is a system to create hypermedia-driven REST and GraphQL APIs. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References