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medium 6.5

CVE-2022-21708 json

Denial of Service in graphql-go

published 2022-01-21 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-mh3m-8c74-74xh , GO-2022-0300 , EUVD-2022-0647

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

graphql-go is a GraphQL server with a focus on ease of use. In versions prior to 1.3.0 there exists a DoS vulnerability that is possible due to a bug in the library that would allow an attacker with specifically designed queries to cause stack overflow panics. Any user with access to the GraphQL handler can send these queries and cause stack overflows. This in turn could potentially compromise the ability of the server to serve data to its users. The issue has been patched in version `v1.3.0`. The only known workaround for this issue is to disable the `graphql.MaxDepth` option from your schema which is not recommended.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/graph-gophers/graphql-go 1.3.0
  • graphql-go_project graphql-go 1.3.0
  • golang-github-graph-gophers-graphql-go Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.3.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21708

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-21708 updated cvss 7.5

graphql-go: Denial of service via stack overflow panics

  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 3 graphql-go
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 openshift4/ose-console v4.12.0-202406190905.p0.g8654e63.assembly.stream.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:4006
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 openshift4/ose-console v4.13.0-202406112237.p0.gdc7be0c.assembly.stream.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:3885
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 openshift4/ose-console v4.14.0-202402061340.p0.g3cab6c4.assembly.stream.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0735
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 rhcos 412.86.202406190528-0, openshift4/ose-cli v4.12.0-202406190905.p0.gd691257.assembly.stream.el8, openshift4/ose-pod v4.12.0-202406190905.p0.g306a47e.assembly.stream.el8, openshift4/ose-etcd v4.12.0-202406190905.p0.gbb82e89.assembly.stream.el8, openshift4/ose-tests v4.12.0-202406190905.p0.g7b7d4ef.assembly.stream.el8, openshift4/ose-coredns v4.12.0-202406190905.p0.gcc1194e.assembly.stream.el8, +185 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 rhcos 413.92.202406110749-0, openshift4/ose-etcd-rhel9 v4.13.0-202406060837.p0.ga6b7ad4.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-ironic-rhel9 v4.13.0-202406060837.p0.g881e793.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-haproxy-router v4.13.0-202406100906.p0.g2012a1d.assembly.stream.el8, openshift4/ose-ovn-kubernetes v4.13.0-202406060837.p0.ged2bab4.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/network-tools-rhel8 v4.13.0-202406060837.p0.g073feda.assembly.stream.el8, +13 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 openshift4/ose-tests v4.14.0-202402061510.p0.gaa0cb9b.assembly.stream.el8, openshift4/ose-ironic-rhel9 v4.14.0-202402050839.p0.g7296ed5.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-docker-builder v4.14.0-202402040340.p0.g9c104de.assembly.stream, openshift4/driver-toolkit-rhel9 v4.14.0-202402021810.p0.gcafed17.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-olm-rukpak-rhel8 v4.14.0-202402060410.p0.g2287fb2.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-ovn-kubernetes v4.14.0-202402061340.p0.gdb114cf.assembly.stream.el9, +24 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/graph-gophers/graphql-go
<1.3.0
1.3.0

Affected products

  • graph-gophers graphql-go

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion

References

Sources

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