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HIGHCVE-2026-43967Published Modified CNA EEF

CVE-2026-43967: Quadratic fragment-name uniqueness check causes denial of service in absinthe

Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity vulnerability in absinthe-graphql absinthe allows unauthenticated denial of service via quadratic fragment-name uniqueness validation. 'Elixir.Absinthe.Phase.Document.Validation.UniqueFragmentNames':run/2 iterates over all fragments and for each one calls duplicate?/2, which evaluates Enum.count(fragments, &(&1.name == name)) — a full linear scan of the fragment list. The result is O(N²) comparisons per document, where N is the number of fragment definitions supplied by the caller. Because input.fragments is built directly from the GraphQL query body, N is fully attacker-controlled. A minimum-size fragment definition is roughly 16 bytes, so a ~1 MB document carries ~60,000 fragments and forces ~3.6 × 10⁹ comparisons inside this single validation phase. No authentication, schema knowledge, or special configuration is required. This issue affects absinthe: from 1.2.0 before 1.10.2.

Metrics

CVSS v4.0
8.7
Severity
HIGH
Fixed in
1.10.2
Affected Products
2

Fix available

1.10.2223600c520493dcaf95080af552c413099f92c9d
Patch commits
Affected packages
  • absinthe-graphql / absinthe
    < 1.10.2 (from 1.2.0)
  • absinthe-graphql / absinthe
    < 223600c520493dcaf95080af552c413099f92c9d (from 0b46e3bcc06c0d3797bacd64761b908a84646c1d)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVE-2026-43967: Quadratic fragment-name uniqueness check causes denial of service in absinthe | HarborGuard CVE