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1 vulnerability found for apollo-server by apollographql
CVE-2026-23897 (GCVE-0-2026-23897)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-02-04 19:18
Modified
2026-02-04 19:55
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Summary
Apollo Server is an open-source, spec-compliant GraphQL server that's compatible with any GraphQL client, including Apollo Client. In versions from 2.0.0 to 3.13.0, 4.2.0 to before 4.13.0, and 5.0.0 to before 5.4.0, the default configuration of startStandaloneServer from @apollo/server/standalone is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks through specially crafted request bodies with exotic character set encodings. This issue does not affect users that use @apollo/server as a dependency for integration packages, like @as-integrations/express5 or @as-integrations/next, only direct usage of startStandaloneServer.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| apollographql | apollo-server |
Version: >= 2.0.0, <= 3.13.0 Version: >= 4.2.0, < 4.13.0 Version: >= 5.0.0, < 5.4.0 |
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