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GHSA-hmfr-rx46-4jx2 json

GraphQL Armor Max-Depth Plugin Bypass via Introspection Query Obfuscation

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5.3
version 3.0, GitHub
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Summary

### Summary A query depth restriction using the `max-depth` property can be bypassed if `ignoreIntrospection` is enabled (which is the default configuration) by naming your query/fragment `__schema`.

### Details At the start of the `countDepth` function, we have the following check for the `ignoreIntrospection` option:

```typescript if (this.config.ignoreIntrospection && 'name' in node && node.name?.value === '__schema') { return 0; } ```

However, the `node` can be one of: `FieldNode`, `FragmentDefinitionNode`, `InlineFragmentNode`, `OperationDefinitionNode`, `FragmentSpreadNode`.

For example, consider sending the following query:

```graphql query hello { books { title } } ```

This would create an `OperationDefinitionNode` where `node.name.value == 'hello'`

The proper way to handle this is to check explicitly for the `__schema` field, which corresponds to a `FieldNode`.

The fix is

```typescript if ( this.config.ignoreIntrospection && 'name' in node && node.name?.value === '__schema' && node.kind === Kind.FIELD ) { return 0; } ```

This ensures that the node is explicitly a `FieldNode`.

### PoC

Max depth: `6`

```graphql query { books { author { books { author { ...__schema } } } } } fragment __schema on Author { books { title } } ```

### Impact

This issue affects applications using the GraphQL Armor Depth Limit plugin with `ignoreIntrospection` enabled.

### Fix

This is fixed in [PR#823](https://github.com/Escape-Technologies/graphql-armor/pull/823)

Patch / fix

  • npm @escape.tech/graphql-armor-max-depth 2.4.2

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm @escape.tech/graphql-armor-max-depth
<2.4.2
2.4.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

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