CVE-2023-26144

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    CVE-2023-26144

    Published: 20 Sept 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Versions of the package graphql from 16.3.0 and before 16.8.1 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to insufficient checks in the OverlappingFieldsCanBeMergedRule.ts file when parsing large queries. This vulnerability allows an attacker to degrade system performance. **Note:** It was not proven that this vulnerability can crash the process.

    References: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/releases/tag/v16.8.1, https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRAPHQL-5905181, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/26xxx/CVE-2023-26144.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26144, https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/issues/3955, https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/commit/f94b511386c7e47bd0380dcd56553dc063320226, https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/pull/3972

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- f597c694339b7c488f05496806e404659f6ff955
    Fixed -8a95335f545024c09abfa0f07cc326f73a0e466f

    Affected versions

    v16.8.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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    Availability
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