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Maximum limit bypass

Moderate
huumn published GHSA-f253-fgcv-gh9h Aug 26, 2025

Package

No package listed

Affected versions

6179ffb8

Patched versions

500657cb

Description

Summary

One can pass limit: null to GraphQL queries to bypass the configured maximum of 1000 here:

const limit = createIntScalar({
name: 'Limit',
description: 'Limit custom scalar type',
maximum: 1000
})

Details

I tried to fix this via validate in createIntScalar, but it doesn't run if we pass null.

I also tried to set a default value in our typedefs, but it's only used if the argument is not given at all.

Guess we have to use a raw GraphQLScalarType definition to fix this.

PoC

query {
  items(limit: null) {
    items {
      id
    }
    cursor
  }
}

this returns 3573 items, more than the maximum

Impact

Maybe DoS, but not sure, didn't test in prod. There are 10819 items in my local db, so it does not return all items, but maybe only because of filters, so it might still actually go through the whole table on the server.

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVE ID

No known CVE

Weaknesses

No CWEs

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