Authenticated service interruption via unbounded GraphQL aliases
Published Oct 22, 2024 · Updated Nov 20, 2025
GraphQL resource exhaustion in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 allows remote authenticated users to interrupt service via batched queries. GraphQL batching accepts thousands of aliases in one query without limiting their expansion, exhausting application resources. Any authenticated low-privilege user who can submit GraphQL queries can make the application unavailable to legitimate users.
Summary
What happened
GraphQL resource exhaustion in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 allows remote authenticated users to interrupt service via batched queries. GraphQL batching accepts thousands of aliases in one query without limiting their expansion, exhausting application resources. Any authenticated low-privilege user who can submit GraphQL queries can make the application unavailable to legitimate users.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-50311
- Published
- Oct 22, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 20, 2025
- Vendor
- Red Hat
- Product
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Oct 22, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 20, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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