Vulnerability · Published Apr 7, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-32033Apollo Router Operation Limits Vulnerable to Bypass via Integer Overflow

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity memory corruption 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).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 51.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

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. Prior to 1.61.2 and 2.1.1, the operation limits plugin uses unsigned 32-bit integers to track limit counters (e.g. for a query's height). If a counter exceeded the maximum value for this data type (4,294,967,295), it wrapped around to 0, unintentionally allowing queries to bypass configured thresholds. This could occur for large queries if the payload limit were sufficiently increased, but could also occur for small queries with deeply nested and reused named fragments. This has been remediated in apollo-router versions 1.61.2 and 2.1.1.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
apollographql router < 1.61.2>= 2.0.0-alpha.0, < 2.1.1

Weakness: CWE-119 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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