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GraphQL Cross-Site Request Forgery

medium Web App Scanning Plugin ID 112920

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Synopsis

GraphQL Cross-Site Request Forgery

Description

GraphQL is an open-source query and manipulation language for APIs and a server-side runtime built to handle these queries on the application dataset. GraphQL servers often allow other `Content-Type` header values than `application/json`, and GET based requests for both queries and mutations. By leveraging this, an attacker could achieve a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack and make an authenticated user perform arbitrary actions on the target GraphQL endpoint.

Solution

The application should be updated to provide at least anti-CSRF tokens management on GraphQL endpoints and set the `SameSite` attribute to `Lax` on authentication cookies. Avoid using GET method in requests performing changing operations on the target application.

See Also

https://blog.doyensec.com/2021/05/20/graphql-csrf.html

https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 112920

Type: remote

Published: 9/26/2022

Updated: 11/14/2024

Scan Template: api, full, pci, scan

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: Tenable

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS Score Source: Tenable

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: Tenable

Reference Information