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TI-2025-23157 Aliases CVE-2025-32033GHSA-84m6-5m72-45fp

Apollo Router Operation Limits Vulnerable to Bypass via Integer Overflow

Priority MEDIUM 40CWE-119Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-119 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

The Apollo Router Core is a configurable, high-performance graph router written in Rust to run a federated supergraph that uses Apollo Federation 2. Prior to 1.61.2 and 2.1.1, the operation limits plugin uses unsigned 32-bit integers to track limit counters (e.g. for a query's height). If a counter exceeded the maximum value for this data type (4,294,967,295), it wrapped around to 0, unintentionally allowing queries to bypass configured thresholds. This could occur for large queries if the payload limit were sufficiently increased, but could also occur for small queries with deeply nested and reused named fragments. This has been remediated in apollo-router versions 1.61.2 and 2.1.1.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00596 48th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed router (apollographql): 1.61.2, 2.1.1apollo-router (crates.io): 1.61.2, 2.1.1

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
apollographqlrouterbefore 1.61.2; 2.0.0-alpha.0 to before 2.1.11.61.2, 2.1.1Patch availableCNA
—apollo-router (crates.io)before 1.61.21.61.2Patch availableGHSA-84m6-5m72-45fp
—apollo-router (crates.io)2.0.0-alpha.0 to before 2.1.12.1.1Patch availableGHSA-84m6-5m72-45fp
  • router Vendorapollographql Affected before 1.61.2; 2.0.0-alpha.0 to before 2.1.1 Fixed in 1.61.2, 2.1.1 Patch available CNA
  • apollo-router (crates.io) Vendor— Affected before 1.61.2 Fixed in 1.61.2 Patch available GHSA-84m6-5m72-45fp
  • apollo-router (crates.io) Vendor— Affected 2.0.0-alpha.0 to before 2.1.1 Fixed in 2.1.1 Patch available GHSA-84m6-5m72-45fp

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA router (apollographql) Fixed in 1.61.2, 2.1.1
  • Fix · GHSA-84m6-5m72-45fp apollo-router (crates.io) Fixed in 1.61.2 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-84m6-5m72-45fp apollo-router (crates.io) Fixed in 2.1.1 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-32033
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-84m6-5m72-45fp

References

  • TI-2024-21837 Defect in query plan cache may cause incorrect operations to be executed in Apollo Router CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2024-29063 Apollo Query Planner and Apollo Gateway may infinitely loop on sufficiently complex queries CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2026-19253 Apollo Server is vulnerable to denial of service with `startStandaloneServer` CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2025-23158 Apollo Router Query Planner Vulnerable to Excessive Resource Consumption via Named Fragment Expansion CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2025-23156 Apollo Router Query Planner Vulnerable to Excessive Resource Consumption via Optimization Bypass CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2025-23155 Apollo Gateway Query Planner Vulnerable to Excessive Resource Consumption via Optimization Bypass CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
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