Service crash via unbounded GraphQL field parsing
Published Dec 22, 2025 · Updated Dec 22, 2025
Resource exhaustion in Hasura GraphQL Engine 1.3.3 allows remote attackers to crash the GraphQL endpoint with crafted queries. The /v1/graphql handler parses an extremely long query containing one million repeated field selections without an effective resource limit. No authentication or user interaction is required, but the endpoint must be network-reachable and the referenced table must be queryable; concurrent requests consume service resources until availability is lost.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in Hasura GraphQL Engine 1.3.3 allows remote attackers to crash the GraphQL endpoint with crafted queries. The /v1/graphql handler parses an extremely long query containing one million repeated field selections without an effective resource limit. No authentication or user interaction is required, but the endpoint must be network-reachable and the referenced table must be queryable; concurrent requests consume service resources until availability is lost.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-47713
- Published
- Dec 22, 2025
- Updated
- Dec 22, 2025
- Vendor
- Hasura
- Product
- Hasura GraphQL Engine
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T1499.003
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Dec 22, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Dec 22, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=1.3.3
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Public exploit references
- Hasura GraphQL 1.3.3 Denial of Servicefunctional · demonstrated
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