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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.9 Medium

CVE-2026-40476

graphql-php: Denial of Service via quadratic complexity in OverlappingFieldsCanBeMerged validation

Description

graphql-go is a Go implementation of GraphQL. In versions 15.31.4 and below, the OverlappingFieldsCanBeMerged validation rule performs O(n²) pairwise comparisons of fields sharing the same response name. An attacker can send a query with thousands of repeated identical fields, causing excessive CPU usage during validation before execution begins. This is not mitigated by existing QueryDepth or QueryComplexity rules. This issue has been fixed in version 15.31.5.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

webonyx graphql-php

  • < 15.31.5affected

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