Protected data disclosure via interface fragment queries
Published Nov 13, 2025 · Updated Nov 13, 2025
Access control bypass in Apollo Federation composition allows remote attackers to read protected GraphQL data through crafted queries. Composition accepts @authenticated, @requiresScopes, or @policy directives on interface types and fields even though Router resolution does not inherit them for implementing objects, so fragments avoid the checks. Exposure requires access-control directives on interfaces; deployments without Router access control or protected interfaces are unaffected.
Summary
What happened
Access control bypass in Apollo Federation composition allows remote attackers to read protected GraphQL data through crafted queries. Composition accepts @authenticated, @requiresScopes, or @policy directives on interface types and fields even though Router resolution does not inherit them for implementing objects, so fragments avoid the checks. Exposure requires access-control directives on interfaces; deployments without Router access control or protected interfaces are unaffected.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-64530
- Published
- Nov 13, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 13, 2025
- Vendor
- Apollo GraphQL
- Product
- Apollo Federation
- Classifications
- CWE-288, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Nov 13, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=>= 2.10.0-preview.0, < 2.10.4
- Affected versionversion=>= 2.11.0-preview.0, < 2.11.5
- Affected versionversion=>= 2.12.0-preview.0, 2.12.1
- Affected versionversion=< 2.9.5
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