Neo4j GraphQL up to 7.6.3 Directive Processing privileges management

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Neo4j GraphQL up to 7.6.3. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Directive Processing. This manipulation causes privileges management. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-92681. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Neo4j GraphQL up to 7.6.3. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component Directive Processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In @neo4j/graphql versions up to and including 7.6.3, @authentication directives applied at the schema level or on the Query or Mutation types are silently ignored for top-level fields annotated with @cypher. Only @authentication directives placed directly on the individual fields are enforced. An application that exposes a top-level @cypher field and relies on schema-level or type-level @authentication to protect it allows unauthenticated callers to invoke the field and run the configured Cypher statement with the privileges of the GraphQL service account, which may permit reading and modifying data. Fixed in 7.6.4.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-92681 since 09/16/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 7.6.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Neo4j

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• GraphQL

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• 7.6.0
• 7.6.1
• 7.6.2
• 7.6.3

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• Product: https://github.com/neo4j/graphql/

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