CVE-2023-40180 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Graphql
Severity
7.5HIGHCNA
No vectorEPSS
0.7%
top 28.38%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 16
Latest updateOct 17
Description
Denial of service vulnerability in silverstripe-graphql via recursive queries
silverstripe-graphql is a package which serves Silverstripe data in GraphQL representations. An attacker could use a recursive graphql query to execute a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDOS attack) against a website. This mostly affects websites with publicly exposed graphql schemas. If your Silverstripe CMS project does not expose a public facing graphql schema, a user account is required to trigger the DDOS a…