CVE-2026-32621

Apollo Federation has prototype pollution via incomplete key sanitization

State
Published
Severity
9.9 Critical
Published
Mar 13, 2026
Updated
Mar 16, 2026
Reserved
Mar 12, 2026

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Description

Apollo Federation is an architecture for declaratively composing APIs into a unified graph. Prior to 2.9.6, 2.10.5, 2.11.6, 2.12.3, and 2.13.2, a vulnerability exists in query plan execution within the gateway that may allow pollution of Object.prototype in certain scenarios. A malicious client may be able to pollute Object.prototype in gateway directly by crafting operations with field aliases and/or variable names that target prototype-inheritable properties. Alternatively, if a subgraph were to be compromised by a malicious actor, they may be able to pollute Object.prototype in gateway by crafting JSON response payloads that target prototype-inheritable properties. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.9.6, 2.10.5, 2.11.6, 2.12.3, and 2.13.2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.9 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1321 Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
federation-internals@apollo
  • >= 2.13.0-preview.0, < 2.13.2Affected
  • >= 2.12.0-preview.0, < 2.12.3Affected
  • >= 2.11.0-preview.0, < 2.11.6Affected
  • >= 2.10.0-alpha.0, < 2.10.5Affected
  • < 2.9.6Affected
gateway@apollo
  • >= 2.13.0-preview.0, < 2.13.2Affected
  • >= 2.12.0-preview.0, < 2.12.3Affected
  • >= 2.11.0-preview.0, < 2.11.6Affected
  • >= 2.10.0-alpha.0, < 2.10.5Affected
  • < 2.9.6Affected
query-planner@apollo
  • >= 2.13.0-preview.0, < 2.13.2Affected
  • >= 2.12.0-preview.0, < 2.12.3Affected
  • >= 2.11.0-preview.0, < 2.11.6Affected
  • >= 2.10.0-alpha.0, < 2.10.5Affected
  • < 2.9.6Affected

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