Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting github.com/graph-gophers/graphql-go/internal/validation package, versions <1.3.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (25th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMGRAPHGOPHERSGRAPHQLGOINTERNALVALIDATION-2359051
  • published23 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jan 2022
  • creditJuho Nurminen

Introduced: 23 Jan 2022

CVE-2022-21708  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/graph-gophers/graphql-go/internal/validation to version 1.3.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). An attacker with specifically designed queries can cause stack overflow panics. Any user with access to the GraphQL handler can send these queries and cause stack overflows. This could potentially compromise the ability of the server to serve data to its users.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1