Apollo Router Operation Limits Vulnerable to Bypass via Integer Overflow
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
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
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| apollographql | router | before 1.61.2; 2.0.0-alpha.0 to before 2.1.1 | 1.61.2, 2.1.1 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | apollo-router (crates.io) | before 1.61.2 | 1.61.2 | Patch available | GHSA-84m6-5m72-45fp |
| — | apollo-router (crates.io) | 2.0.0-alpha.0 to before 2.1.1 | 2.1.1 | Patch available | GHSA-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
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-32033
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-84m6-5m72-45fp
References
More apollographql vulnerabilities
- 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
Sources
- CVE-2025-32033 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-32033 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-84m6-5m72-45fp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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