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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2023-28867 json

GraphQL Java vulnerable to stack consumption

published 2023-03-27 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-p4qx-6w5p-4rj2 , EUVD-2023-1064

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In GraphQL Java (aka graphql-java) before 20.1, an attacker can send a crafted GraphQL query that causes stack consumption. The fixed versions are 20.1, 19.4, 18.4, 17.5, and 0.0.0-2023-03-20T01-49-44-80e3135.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.graphql-java:graphql-java 0.0.0-2023-03-20T01-49-44-80e3135, 17.5, 18.4, 19.4, 20.1
  • graphql-java graphql-java 17.5, 18.4, 19.4

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-2023-28867 updated cvss 7.5

graphql-java: crafted GraphQL query causes stack consumption

  • Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 graphql-java Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes graphql-java
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.13.8.Final graphql-java 19.4.0.redhat-00001
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3809
  • Red Hat RHINT Service Registry 2.4.3 GA
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3815
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.13.8.Final jna 5.8.0, bson 4.7.2, db2 1.17.3, h2 2.1.214, jansi 1.18, jdom 1.1.3, +872 more 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
20 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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
<0.0.0-2023-03-20T01-49-44-80e3135
>=1.2, <17.5
>=18.0, <18.4
>=19.0, <19.4
>=20.0, <20.1
0.0.0-2023-03-20T01-49-44-80e3135
17.5
18.4
19.4
20.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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