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GHSA-m4h2-mjfm-mp55

Mercurius's queryDepth limit bypassed for WebSocket subscriptions

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Low CVE-2026-30241

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
npm mercurius < 16.8.0 16.8.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

## Description Mercurius fails to enforce the configured queryDepth limit on GraphQL subscription queries received over WebSocket connections. The depth check is correctly applied to HTTP queries and mutations, but subscription queries are parsed and executed without invoking the depth validation. This allows a remote client to submit arbitrarily deeply nested subscription queries over WebSocket, bypassing the intended depth restriction. On schemas with recursive types, this can lead to denial of service through exponential data resolution on each subscription event. ## Workarounds Disable subscriptions and, in general, queries over the WebSocket.

References

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