Quarkus WebSocket GraphQL Auth Bypass by Missing Role Permission
CVE-2023-6394 Published on December 9, 2023

Quarkus: graphql operations over websockets bypass
A flaw was found in Quarkus. This issue occurs when receiving a request over websocket with no role-based permission specified on the GraphQL operation, Quarkus processes the request without authentication despite the endpoint being secured. This can allow an attacker to access information and functionality outside of normal granted API permissions.

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Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2023-6394 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality and integrity, and no impact on availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
HIGH
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
NONE

Timeline

Reported to Red Hat.

Made public. 8 days later.

Weakness Type

Incorrect Behavior Order: Authorization Before Parsing and Canonicalization

If a web server does not fully parse requested URLs before it examines them for authorization, it may be possible for an attacker to bypass authorization protection. For instance, the character strings /./ and / both mean current directory. If /SomeDirectory is a protected directory and an attacker requests /./SomeDirectory, the attacker may be able to gain access to the resource if /./ is not converted to / before the authorization check is performed.


Products Associated with CVE-2023-6394

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Quarkus
 
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Affected Versions

Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.13.9.Final: Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.2.9.Final:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.54%
Percentile
67.17%

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