CVE-2025-32031
Apollo Gateway Query Planner Vulnerable to Excessive Resource Consumption via Optimization Bypass
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.60% · top 51% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 2.10.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npm@apollo/gatewayGHSA-p2q6-pwh5-m6jr (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://github.com/apollographql/federation/security/advisories/GHSA-p2q6-pwh5-m6jr (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/apollographql/federation/pull/3236 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/apollographql/federation/releases/tag/%40apollo%2Fgateway%402.10.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-p2q6-pwh5-m6jr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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