CVE-2023-40180

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-40180
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-10-16 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-23 14:21:00 UTC
Descriptionsilverstripe-graphql is a package which serves Silverstripe data in GraphQL representations. An attacker could use a recursive graphql query to execute a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDOS attack) against a website. This mostly affects websites with publicly exposed graphql schemas. If your Silverstripe CMS project does not expose a public facing graphql schema, a user account is required to trigger the DDOS attack. If your site is hosted behind a content delivery network (CDN), such as Imperva or CloudFlare, this may further mitigate the risk. This issue has been addressed in versions 3.8.2, 4.1.3, 4.2.5, 4.3.4, and 5.0.3. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Silverstripe Graphql All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Recursive or complex queries | Silverstripe CMS Documentation MISC docs.silverstripe.org
CVE-2023-40180 - DDOS Vulnerability on GraphQL due to lack of protection against recursive queries » Silverstripe CMS MISC www.silverstripe.org
DDOS Vulnerability on GraphQL due to lack of protection against recursive queries · Advisory · silverstripe/silverstripe-graphql · GitHub MISC github.com
[CVE-2023-40180] Add protection against recursive queries (#558) · silverstripe/silverstripe-graphql@f6d5976 · GitHub MISC github.com
GitHub - silverstripe/silverstripe-graphql at 3.8 MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 995586 PHP (Composer) Security Update for silverstripe/graphql (GHSA-v23w-pppm-jh66)
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