Apollo Router Query Planner Vulnerable to Excessive Resource Consumption via Named Fragment Expansion
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-770.
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, a vulnerability in Apollo Router allowed queries with deeply nested and reused named fragments to be prohibitively expensive to query plan, specifically during named fragment expansion. Named fragments were being expanded once per fragment spread during query planning, leading to exponential resource usage when deeply nested and reused fragments were involved. This could lead to excessive resource consumption and denial of service. 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-75m2-jhh5-j5g2 |
| — | apollo-router (crates.io) | 2.0.0-alpha.0 to before 2.1.1 | 2.1.1 | Patch available | GHSA-75m2-jhh5-j5g2 |
- 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-75m2-jhh5-j5g2
- apollo-router (crates.io) Vendor— Affected 2.0.0-alpha.0 to before 2.1.1 Fixed in 2.1.1 Patch available GHSA-75m2-jhh5-j5g2
Remediation
- Fix · CNA router (apollographql) Fixed in 1.61.2, 2.1.1
- Fix · GHSA-75m2-jhh5-j5g2 apollo-router (crates.io) Fixed in 1.61.2 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-75m2-jhh5-j5g2 apollo-router (crates.io) Fixed in 2.1.1 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-32034
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-75m2-jhh5-j5g2
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-2025-23157 Apollo Router Operation Limits Vulnerable to Bypass via Integer Overflow 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-2025-32034 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-32034 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-75m2-jhh5-j5g2 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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