Headline
GHSA-cm8h-q92v-xcfc: mercurius has Uncaught Exception when using subscriptions
Impact
Any users of Mercurius until version v11.5.0 are subjected to a denial of service attack by sending a malformed packet over WebSocket to /graphql.
Patches
This was patched in https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/pull/940.
Workarounds
Disable subscriptions.
References
Reported publicly as https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/issues/939. The same problem was solved in https://github.com/fastify/fastify-websocket/pull/228
mercurius has Uncaught Exception when using subscriptions
Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 9, 2023 in mercurius-js/mercurius • Updated Jan 9, 2023
Related news
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.