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CVE-2026-23897

Published: Feb 4, 2026

Modified: Feb 4, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.5

HIGH

Description

Apollo Server is an open-source, spec-compliant GraphQL server that's compatible with any GraphQL client, including Apollo Client. In versions from 2.0.0 to 3.13.0, 4.2.0 to before 4.13.0, and 5.0.0 to before 5.4.0, the default configuration of startStandaloneServer from @apollo/server/standalone is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks through specially crafted request bodies with exotic character set encodings. This issue does not affect users that use @apollo/server as a dependency for integration packages, like @as-integrations/express5 or @as-integrations/next, only direct usage of startStandaloneServer.

VendorProductVersions

apollographql

apollo-server

affected
>= 2.0.0, <= 3.13.0
affected
>= 4.2.0, < 4.13.0
affected
>= 5.0.0, < 5.4.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-1333

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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