CVE-2023-22477 (GCVE-0-2023-22477)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-09 14:12 – Updated: 2025-03-10 21:31
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Title
Mercurius is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) when using subscriptions
Summary
Mercurius is a GraphQL adapter for Fastify. Any users of Mercurius until version 10.5.0 are subjected to a denial of service attack by sending a malformed packet over WebSocket to `/graphql`. This issue was patched in #940. As a workaround, users can disable subscriptions.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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mercurius-js mercurius Affected: < 10.5.0
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