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CVE-2025-64530
November 13, 2025
Apollo Federation is an architecture for declaratively composing APIs into a unified graph. A vulnerability in versions of Apollo Federation's composition logic prior to 2.9.5, 2.10.4, 2.11.5, and 2.12.1 allowed some queries to Apollo Router to improperly bypass access controls on types/fields. Apollo Federation incorrectly allowed user-defined access control directives on interface types/fields, which could be bypassed by instead querying the implementing object types/fields in Apollo Router via inline fragments, for example. A fix to versions 2.9.5, 2.10.4, 2.11.5, and 2.12.1 of composition logic in Federation now disallows interfaces types and fields to contain user-defined access control directives. Some workarounds are available. Users of Apollo Rover with an unpatched composition version or are using the Apollo Studio build pipeline with Federation version 2.8 or below should manually copy the access control requirements on interface types/fields to each implementing object type/field where appropriate. Do not remove those access control requirements from the interface types/fields, as unpatched Apollo Composition will not automatically generate them in the supergraph schema. Customers not using Apollo Router access control features ("@authenticated", "@requiresScopes", or "@policy" directives) or not specifying access control requirements on interface types/fields are not affected and do not need to take action.
Affected Packages
@apollo/composition (NPM):
Affected version(s) =2.12.0 <2.12.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.12.1
@apollo/composition (NPM):
Affected version(s) >=2.10.0 <2.10.4
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.10.4
@apollo/composition (NPM):
Affected version(s) >=2.11.0-preview.1 <2.11.5
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.11.5
@apollo/composition (NPM):
Affected version(s) >=2.10.0-alpha.3 <2.10.4
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.10.4
@apollo/composition (NPM):
Affected version(s) >=2.0.0-alpha.0 <2.9.5
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.9.5
@apollo/composition (NPM):
Affected version(s) >=2.12.0-preview.1 <2.12.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.12.1
@apollo/composition (NPM):
Affected version(s) >=2.11.0 <2.11.5
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.11.5
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Improper Access Control
EPSS
Base Score:
0.07