Vulnerability · Published Apr 7, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2025-32032Apollo Router Query Planner Vulnerable to Excessive Resource Consumption via Optimization Bypass
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity resource allocation without limits in router from apollographql. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Apollo Router Core is a configurable, high-performance graph router written in Rust to run a federated supergraph that uses Apollo Federation 2. A vulnerability in Apollo Router allowed queries with deeply nested and reused named fragments to be prohibitively expensive to query plan, specifically due to internal optimizations being frequently bypassed. The query planner includes an optimization that significantly speeds up planning for applicable GraphQL selections. However, queries with deeply nested and reused named fragments can generate many selections where this optimization does not apply, leading to significantly longer planning times. Because the query planner does not enforce a timeout, a small number of such queries can exhaust router's thread pool, rendering it inoperable. This could lead to excessive resource consumption and denial of service. This has been remediated in apollo-router versions 1.61.2 and 2.1.1.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| apollographql | router | < 1.61.2>= 2.0.0-alpha.0, < 2.1.1 |
Weakness: CWE-770 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- https://github.com/apollographql/router/security/advisories/GHSA-94hh-jmq8-2fgp x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/apollographql/router/commit/ab6675a63174715ea6ff50881fc957831d4e9564 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/apollographql/router/commit/bba032e183b861348a466d3123c7137a1ae18952 x_refsource_MISC