CVE-2024-32971: Apollo router Apollo Router Vulnerable To Critical Vulnerability
CRITICALCVE-2024-32971 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.0) apollo router vulnerable to critical vulnerability (CWE-440: Expected Behavior Violation) affecting Apollo router libraries in the crates.io ecosystem. The issue involves apollo router vulnerable to critical regression in query plan cache. Remediation is available by upgrading affected packages to version 1.45.1.
CVE-2024-32971 at a Glance
Security Impact
CVSS: 9.0
The security impact metrics below are parsed directly from the CVSS v3.1 vector string (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).
How to Fix CVE-2024-32971
To remediate this vulnerability, upgrade all affected Apollo router dependencies to a patched release. Both direct and transitive dependencies should be checked, as frameworks or security libraries may pull in vulnerable versions transitively.
Upgrade apollo-router to 1.45.1
Run the following command in your project directory to verify that all resolved dependencies use the patched release:
inspect dependencies for apollo-router
How to Check if You Are Affected
To determine whether your application is affected by CVE-2024-32971, inspect your project dependencies for Apollo router:
inspect dependencies for apollo-router
Analyze the terminal output to locate any version of Apollo router in your dependency tree. If any resolved version matches the vulnerable ranges listed in the table below (for example, versions earlier than 1.45.1), your application is affected.
Note: Verify declared build manifests and deployed runtime container environments.
Technical Details
Vulnerability Mechanism & Technical Analysis
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-440: Expected Behavior Violation, where a feature, api, or function does not perform according to its specification. In Apollo router, software state validation or input boundaries are circumvented during processing. Review the official source advisory statement below for specific affected components, classes, and reproduction details.
Source Advisory Statement
CVE-2024-32971 Affected Apollo router Versions
1 component(s)| Product / Package | Ecosystem | Affected Versions | Fixed Version |
|---|---|---|---|
|
apollo-router
|
crates.io |
≥ 1.44.0
< 1.45.1
|
1.45.1
|
References
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Machine-readable OSV JSON
OSV v1.5 Schema
{
"schema_version" : "1.4.0",
"id" : "GHSA-q9p4-hw9m-fj2v",
"modified" : "2024-05-02T19:35:51Z",
"published" : "2024-05-02T08:20:00Z",
"aliases" : [ "CVE-2024-32971" ],
"summary" : "Apollo Router vulnerable to Critical Regression In Query Plan Cache",
"details" : "### Impact\nAny instance of Apollo Router 1.44.0 or 1.45.0 that is using Distributed Query Plan Caching is impacted. These versions were released on 2024-04-12 and 2024-04-22 respectively.\n\nThe affected versions of Apollo Router contain a bug that could lead to unexpected operations being executed, which can result in unintended data or effects. This only affects Router instances configured to use distributed query plan caching. Router versions other than the ones listed above, and all Router deployments that are not using distributed query plan caching, are unaffected by this defect.\n\nIf you are using the affected versions, you can check your router’s configuration YAML to verify if you are impacted:\n\n\n```yaml\nsupergraph:\n query_planning:\n cache:\n # Look for this config below\n redis:\n urls: [\"redis://...\"]\n```\nA full reference on the[ Distributed Query Plan Caching feature is available here.](https://www.apollographql.com/docs/router/configuration/distributed-caching/#distributed-query-plan-caching)\n\n### Impact detail\nThe root cause of this defect is a bug in Apollo Router’s cache retrieval logic: When this defect is present and distributed query planning caching is enabled, asking the Router to execute an operation (whether it is a query, a mutation, or a subscription) may result in an unexpected variation of that operation being executed or the generation of unexpected errors. \n\nThe issue stems from inadvertently executing a modified version of a previously executed operation, whose query plan is stored in the underlying cache (specifically, Redis). Depending on the type of the operation, the result may vary. For a query, results may be fetched that don’t match what was requested (e.g., rather than running `fetchUsers(type: ENTERPRISE)` the Router may run `fetchUsers(type: TRIAL)`. For a mutation, this may result in incorrect mutations being sent to underlying subgraph servers (e.g., rather than sending `deleteUser(id: 10)` to a subgraph, the Router may run `deleteUser(id: 12)`.\n\n### Patches\nApollo Router 1.45.1\n\nIf you are using distributed query plan caching, please either upgrade to version 1.45.1 or above or downgrade to version 1.43.2 of the Apollo Router. We do not recommend Apollo Router versions 1.44.0 or 1.45.0 for use and have withdrawn these releases. If you use impacted versions in production, we recommend that you migrate away immediately by redeploying to an unaffected Router version. For non-production use cases, we recommend you migrate at your earliest convenience.\n\n### Workarounds\nIf you cannot upgrade or downgrade, you can disable distributed query plan caching by removing the `supergraph.query_planning.cache.redis.urls` configuration. Please note that when distributed query plan caching is disabled, each Router instance will maintain its own in-memory query plan cache. This may increase resource utilization for each Router instance and could increase cold-start times as each Router instance builds its query plan cache.\n\n### References\n[Apollo Router 1.45.1 Release Notes](https://github.com/apollographql/router/releases/tag/v1.45.1)",
"severity" : [ {
"type" : "CVSS_V3",
"score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"
} ],
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},
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"events" : [ {
"introduced" : "1.44.0"
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} ],
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"type" : "WEB",
"url" : "https://github.com/apollographql/router/security/advisories/GHSA-q9p4-hw9m-fj2v"
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"type" : "ADVISORY",
"url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32971"
}, {
"type" : "WEB",
"url" : "https://github.com/apollographql/router/commit/ff9f666598cd17661880fe7fc6e9c9611316e529"
}, {
"type" : "PACKAGE",
"url" : "https://github.com/apollographql/router"
}, {
"type" : "WEB",
"url" : "https://github.com/apollographql/router/releases/tag/v1.45.1"
}, {
"type" : "WEB",
"url" : "https://www.apollographql.com/docs/router/configuration/distributed-caching/#distributed-query-plan-caching"
} ],
"database_specific" : {
"cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-440" ],
"severity" : "CRITICAL",
"github_reviewed" : true,
"github_reviewed_at" : "2024-05-02T08:20:00Z",
"nvd_published_at" : "2024-05-02T07:15:21Z"
}
}