apollographql federation up to 2.9.4/2.10.3/2.11.4/2.12.1 authentication bypass

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in apollographql federation up to 2.9.4/2.10.3/2.11.4/2.12.1. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to authentication bypass. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-64530. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in apollographql federation up to 2.9.4/2.10.3/2.11.4/2.12.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authentication bypass vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-288. A product requires authentication, but the product has an alternate path or channel that does not require authentication. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-64530 since 11/05/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 2.9.5, 2.10.4 or 2.11.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• apollographql

Name

• federation

Version

• 2.9.0
• 2.9.1
• 2.9.2
• 2.9.3
• 2.9.4
• 2.10.0
• 2.10.1
• 2.10.2
• 2.10.3
• 2.11.0
• 2.11.1
• 2.11.2
• 2.11.3
• 2.11.4
• 2.12.0
• 2.12.1

Website

• Product: https://github.com/apollographql/federation/

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