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GraphQL grant on a property might be cached with different objects

High
soyuka published GHSA-428q-q3vv-3fq3 Apr 3, 2025

Package

composer api-platform/core (Composer)

Affected versions

<4.0.21
<3.4.16

Patched versions

4.0.22
3.4.17
composer api-platform/graphql (Composer)
<4.0.21
<3.4.16
4.0.22
3.4.17

Description

Original message:

I found an issue with security grants on on properties in the GraphQL ItemNormalizer:

If you use something like #[ApiProperty(security: 'is_granted("PROPERTY_READ", [object, property])')] on a member of an entity, the grant gets cached and is only evaluated once, even if the object in question is a different one.

There is the ApiPlatform\GraphQl\Serializer\ItemNormalizer::isCacheKeySafe() method that seems to be intended to prevent this:

/**
* Check if any property contains a security grants, which makes the cache key not safe,
* as allowed_properties can differ for 2 instances of the same object.
*/
private function isCacheKeySafe(array $context): bool

and in its usage on line 90 it does indeed not create a cache key, but the parent::normalize() that is called afterwards still creates the cache key and causes the issue.

Impact

It grants access to properties that it should not.

Workarounds

Override the ItemNormalizer.

Patched at: 7af65aa

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2025-31485

Weaknesses

No CWEs

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