CVE-2026-32621 PUBLISHED

Apollo Federation has prototype pollution via incomplete key sanitization

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 12.03.2026 Published: 13.03.2026 Updated: 13.03.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS Score: 9.9

Product Status

Vendor @apollo
Product federation-internals
Versions
  • Version >= 2.13.0-preview.0, < 2.13.2 is affected
  • Version >= 2.12.0-preview.0, < 2.12.3 is affected
  • Version >= 2.11.0-preview.0, < 2.11.6 is affected
  • Version >= 2.10.0-alpha.0, < 2.10.5 is affected
  • Version < 2.9.6 is affected
Vendor @apollo
Product gateway
Versions
  • Version >= 2.13.0-preview.0, < 2.13.2 is affected
  • Version >= 2.12.0-preview.0, < 2.12.3 is affected
  • Version >= 2.11.0-preview.0, < 2.11.6 is affected
  • Version >= 2.10.0-alpha.0, < 2.10.5 is affected
  • Version < 2.9.6 is affected
Vendor @apollo
Product query-planner
Versions
  • Version >= 2.13.0-preview.0, < 2.13.2 is affected
  • Version >= 2.12.0-preview.0, < 2.12.3 is affected
  • Version >= 2.11.0-preview.0, < 2.11.6 is affected
  • Version >= 2.10.0-alpha.0, < 2.10.5 is affected
  • Version < 2.9.6 is affected

References

Problem Types

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