CVE-2023-40180

Denial of service vulnerability in silverstripe-graphql via recursive queries

Published Oct 16, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 1.1% KEV · Not listed
Description
silverstripe-graphql is a package which serves Silverstripe data in GraphQL representations. An attacker could use a recursive graphql query to execute a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDOS attack) against a website. This mostly affects websites with publicly exposed graphql schemas. If your Silverstripe CMS project does not expose a public facing graphql schema, a user account is required to trigger the DDOS attack. If your site is hosted behind a content delivery network (CDN), such as Imperva or CloudFlare, this may further mitigate the risk. This issue has been addressed in versions 3.8.2, 4.1.3, 4.2.5, 4.3.4, and 5.0.3. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-2810 silverstripe-graphql is a package which serves Silverstripe data in GraphQL representations. An attacker could use a recursive graphql query to execute a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDOS attack) against a website. This mostly affects websites with publicly exposed graphql schemas. If your Silverstripe CMS project does not expose a public facing graphql schema, a user account is required to trigger the DDOS attack. If your site is hosted behind a content delivery network (CDN), such as Imperva or CloudFlare, this may further mitigate the risk. This issue has been addressed in versions 3.8.2, 4.1.3, 4.2.5, 4.3.4, and 5.0.3. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-v23w-pppm-jh66 Silverstripe GraphQL has DDOS Vulnerability due to lack of protection against recursive queries
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 5:21 PM
Reserved
Aug 9, 2023, 3:26 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 16, 2023, 7:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 6:16 AM