Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting silverstripe/graphql package, versions >=3.0.0, <3.8.2>=4.0.0, <4.1.3>=4.2.0, <4.2.5>=4.3.0, <4.3.4>=5.0.0, <5.0.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-SILVERSTRIPEGRAPHQL-5971034
  • published17 Oct 2023
  • disclosed16 Oct 2023
  • creditJason Nguyen

Introduced: 16 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-40180  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade silverstripe/graphql to version 3.8.2, 4.1.3, 4.2.5, 4.3.4, 5.0.3 or higher.

Overview

silverstripe/graphql is a GraphQL server for SilverStripe models and other data.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') due to publicly exposed graphql schemas. An attacker could use a recursive graphql query against a website.

Note: If Silverstripe CMS project does not expose a public facing graphql schema, a user account is required to trigger the DDOS attack.

CVSS Scores

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