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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-37734 json

graphql-java vulnerable to Denial of Service via GraphQL query that consumes CPU resources

published 2022-09-12 4 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-v62j-cxhh-fq22 , EUVD-2022-6942

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.8%
EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

graphql-java before19.0 is vulnerable to Denial of Service. An attacker can send a malicious GraphQL query that consumes CPU resources. The fixed versions are 19.0 and later, 18.3, and 17.4, and 0.0.0-2022-07-26T05-45-04-226aabd9.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.graphql-java:graphql-java 17.4, 18.3
  • graphql-java_project graphql-java 17.4, 18.3

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-2022-37734 updated cvss 7.5

graphql-java: DoS by malicious query

  • Red Hat build of Quarkus graphql-java Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 graphql-java
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat build of Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:6757
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.13.5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:9023
  • Red Hat RHINT Service Registry 2.3.0 GA
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:6835
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 graphql-java Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 graphql-java Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack graphql-java
    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

Exploit prediction

2.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/graphql-java/graphql-java/pull/2892 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.graphql-java:graphql-java
<17.4
>=18.0, <18.3
17.4
18.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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