strawberry-graphql/strawberry · Security
strawberry-graphql: Denial of Service via unbounded WebSocket subscriptions
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-hv3w-m4g2-5x77
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-35526
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Strawberry GraphQL's WebSocket subscription handlers for both the graphql-transport-ws and legacy graphql-ws protocols allocate an asyncio.Task and associated Operation object for every incoming subscribe message without enforcing any limit on the number of active subscriptions per connection.
An unauthenticated attacker can open a single WebSocket connection, send connection_init, and then flood subscribe messages with unique IDs. Each message unconditionally spawns a new asyncio.Task and async generator, causing linear memory growth and event loop saturation. This leads to server degradation or an OOM crash.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/security/advisories/GHSA-hv3w-m4g2-5x77 ↗
- https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/commit/0977a4e6b41b7cfe3e9d8ba84a43458a2b0c54c2 ↗
- https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/releases/tag/0.312.3 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35526 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/strawberry-graphql/PYSEC-2026-134.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hv3w-m4g2-5x77 ↗