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CVE-2025-32031

Apollo Gateway Query Planner Vulnerable to Excessive Resource Consumption via Optimization Bypass

Published: Apr 7, 2025Updated: Aug 1, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-770
NVD MITRE
7.5CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
0.5%
Top 61.9%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Apollo Gateway provides utilities for combining multiple GraphQL microservices into a single GraphQL endpoint. Prior to 2.10.1, a vulnerability in Apollo Gateway 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 render gateway inoperable. This could lead to excessive resource consumption and denial of service. This has been remediated in @apollo/gateway version 2.10.1.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-770

Affected Products

federationapollographql
Mixed
Cloud & SaaS / api-gateway
apollo gatewayapollographql
Mixed
Cloud & SaaS / api-gateway
@apollo/gatewaynpmOSS Libraries
apollographqlcommercialCloud & SaaSaka apollo router, federation
npmpackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

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References

https://github.com/apollographql/federation/security/advisories/GHSA-p2q6-pwh5-m6jr
github.com
https://github.com/apollographql/federation/pull/3236
github.com
https://github.com/apollographql/federation/releases/tag/%40apollo%2Fgateway%402.10.1
github.com
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Timeline

Published
Apr 7, 2025
Last Updated
Aug 1, 2025

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