CVE-2023-27588 — Hasura is an open-source product that provides users GraphQL or REST APIs

Hasura is an open-source product that provides users GraphQL or REST APIs. A path traversal vulnerability has been discovered within Hasura GraphQL Engine prior to versions 1.3.4, 2.55.1, 2.20.1, and 2.21.0-beta1. Projects running on Hasura Cloud were not vulnerable. Self-hosted

01What is this vulnerability?

Hasura is an open-source product that provides users GraphQL or REST APIs. A path traversal vulnerability has been discovered within Hasura GraphQL Engine prior to versions 1.3.4, 2.55.1, 2.20.1, and 2.21.0-beta1. Projects running on Hasura Cloud were not vulnerable. Self-hosted Hasura Projects with deployments that are publicly exposed and not protected by a WAF or other HTTP protection layer…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
hasura	graphql	engine — < 1.3.4, >= 2.0.0, < 2.11.5, >= 2.2.0, < 2.20.1

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-03-14T17:23:10.499Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-25T14:57:42.725Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/security/advisories/GHSA-c9rw-rw2f-mj4x
• github.com — https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/commit/dda54543ee1ecf647ca5d0971b140c3a…
• github.com — https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/releases/tag/v1.3.4
• github.com — https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/releases/tag/v2.11.5
• github.com — https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/releases/tag/v2.20.1
• github.com — https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/releases/tag/v2.21.0-beta.1