Apollo Gateway Query Planner Vulnerable to Excessive Resource Consumption via Named Fragment Expansion

Vulnerability Description

Apollo Gateway provides utilities for combining multiple GraphQL microservices into a single GraphQL endpoint. Prior to 2.10.1, a vulnerability in Apollo Gateway 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/gateway version 2.10.1.

References

• https://github.com/apollographql/federation/security/advisories/GHSA-q2f9-x4p4-7xmh
• https://github.com/apollographql/federation/pull/3236
• https://github.com/apollographql/federation/releases/tag/%40apollo%2Fgateway%402.10.1