CVE-2024-43783

HIGH EPSS 53.8%
Published Aug 27, 20241y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
7.5 CVSS 3.1
High
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Published Aug 27, 2024 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

Description

The Apollo Router Core is a configurable, high-performance graph router written in Rust to run a federated supergraph that uses Apollo Federation 2. Instances of the Apollo Router running versions >=1.21.0 and < 1.52.1 are impacted by a denial of service vulnerability if _all_ of the following are true: 1. The Apollo Router has been configured to support [External Coprocessing](https://www.apollographql.com/docs/router/customizations/coprocessor). 2. The Apollo Router has been configured to send request bodies to coprocessors. This is a non-default configuration and must be configured intentionally by administrators. Instances of the Apollo Router running versions >=1.7.0 and <1.52.1 are impacted by a denial-of-service vulnerability if all of the following are true: 1. Router has been configured to use a custom-developed Native Rust Plugin. 2. The plugin accesses Request.router_request in the RouterService layer. 3. You are accumulating the body from Request.router_request into memory. If using an impacted configuration, the Router will load entire HTTP request bodies into memory without respect to other HTTP request size-limiting configurations like limits.http_max_request_bytes. This can cause the Router to be out-of-memory (OOM) terminated if a sufficiently large request is sent to the Router. By default, the Router sets limits.http_max_request_bytes to 2 MB. If you have an impacted configuration as defined above, please upgrade to at least Apollo Router 1.52.1. If you cannot upgrade, you can mitigate the denial-of-service opportunity impacting External Coprocessors by setting the coprocessor.router.request.body configuration option to false. Please note that changing this configuration option will change the information sent to any coprocessors you have configured and may impact functionality implemented by those coprocessors. If you have developed a Native Rust Plugin and cannot upgrade, you can update your plugin to either not accumulate the request body or enforce a maximum body size limit. You can also mitigate this issue by limiting HTTP body payload sizes prior to the Router (e.g., in a proxy or web application firewall appliance).

CVSS Details

Base Score
7.5
Exploitability
3.9
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
53.8% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
Public Exploit Known
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-770

Affected Products 3

VendorProductVersionRange
apollographqlapollo-router*≥1.7.0  –  <1.52.1
apollographqlapollo_helms-charts_router*≥1.7.0  –  <1.52.1
apollographqlapollo_router*≥1.7.0  –  <1.52.1

References 6

  • github.com https://github.com/apollographql/router/commit/7a9c020608a62dcaa306b72ed0f6980f15923b14
    Patch
  • github.com https://github.com/apollographql/router/releases/tag/v1.52.1
    Release Notes
  • github.com https://github.com/apollographql/router/security/advisories/GHSA-x6xq-whh3-gg32
    ExploitVendor Advisory
  • apollographql.com https://www.apollographql.com/docs/router/configuration/overview/#request-limits
    Product
  • apollographql.com https://www.apollographql.com/docs/router/customizations/coprocessor
    Technical Description
  • apollographql.com https://www.apollographql.com/docs/router/customizations/native
    Technical Description

Remediation

  • github.com https://github.com/apollographql/router/commit/7a9c020608a62dcaa306b72ed0f6980f15923b14
    Patch