CVE-2026-32621

CRITICAL

Apollo Federation has prototype pollution via incomplete key sanitization

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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

CVSS v3 9.9
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 10.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-1321
Status published
Products (18)
@apollo/federation-internals < 2.9.6
@apollo/federation-internals >= 2.10.0-alpha.0, < 2.10.5
@apollo/federation-internals >= 2.11.0-preview.0, < 2.11.6
@apollo/federation-internals >= 2.12.0-preview.0, < 2.12.3
@apollo/federation-internals >= 2.13.0-preview.0, < 2.13.2
@apollo/gateway < 2.9.6
@apollo/gateway >= 2.10.0-alpha.0, < 2.10.5
@apollo/gateway >= 2.11.0-preview.0, < 2.11.6
@apollo/gateway >= 2.12.0-preview.0, < 2.12.3
@apollo/gateway >= 2.13.0-preview.0, < 2.13.2
... and 8 more
Published Mar 16, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 16, 2026