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Apollo Router's Compressed Payloads do not respect HTTP Payload Limits

Published Mar 6, 2024

Description

The Apollo Router is a graph router written in Rust to run a federated supergraph that uses Apollo Federation. Versions 0.9.5 until 1.40.2 are subject to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) type vulnerability. When receiving compressed HTTP payloads, affected versions of the Router evaluate the `limits.http_max_request_bytes` configuration option after the entirety of the compressed payload is decompressed. If affected versions of the Router receive highly compressed payloads, this could result in significant memory consumption while the compressed payload is expanded. Router version 1.40.2 has a fix for the vulnerability. Those who are unable to upgrade may be able to implement mitigations at proxies or load balancers positioned in front of their Router fleet (e.g. Nginx, HAProxy, or cloud-native WAF services) by creating limits on HTTP body upload size.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published Mar 6, 2024
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Mar 4, 2024
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Aug 5, 2024
NVD
Status Analyzed
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
GHSA-CGQF-3CQ5-WVCJ