CVE-2023-22477 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Mercurius is a GraphQL adapter for Fastify. Any users of Mercurius until version 10.5.0 are subjected to a denial of service attack by sending a malformed packet over WebSocket to `/graphql`. This issue was patched in #940. As a workaround, users can disable subscriptions.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00282.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Mercurius Project	Mercurius

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mercurius_project:mercurius::::::node.js::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mercurius_project:mercurius::::::node.js::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-0446	Mercurius is a GraphQL adapter for Fastify. Any users of Mercurius until version 10.5.0 are subjected to a denial of service attack by sending a malformed packet over WebSocket to `/graphql`. This issue was patched in #940. As a workaround, users can disable subscriptions.
Github GHSA	GHSA-cm8h-q92v-xcfc	mercurius has Uncaught Exception when using subscriptions

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/issues/939
https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/pull/940
https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/security/advisories/GHSA-cm8h-q92v-xcfc

History

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-01-09T14:12:24.837Z

Updated: 2025-03-10T21:31:05.984Z

Reserved: 2022-12-29T17:41:28.087Z

Link: CVE-2023-22477

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T10:13:48.466Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-09T15:15:11.127

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:44:53.093

Link: CVE-2023-22477

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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