CVE-2023-40180 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting silverstripe-graphql, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to perform a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack via recursive GraphQL queries, particularly against publicly exposed schemas. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability has low attack complexity and can lead to high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and no known workarounds exist beyond upgrading to patched versions 3.8.2, 4.1.3, 4.2.5, 4.3.4, or 5.0.3.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 3.0.0, < 3.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silverstripe:graphql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.0.0, < 4.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silverstripe:graphql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.2.0, < 4.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silverstripe:graphql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.3.0, < 4.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silverstripe:graphql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.0.0, < 5.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silverstripe:graphql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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