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🛡️ CVE-2025-23204 — core

🟡 CVSS 4.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-20 NVD
4.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

API Platform Core does not call GraphQl securityAfterResolver

Summary

A security check that gets called after GraphQl resolvers is always replaced by another one as there's no break in this clause: https://github.com/api-platform/core/pull/6444/files#diff-09e3c2cfe12a2ce65bd6c983c7ca6bfcf783f852b8d0554bb938e8ebf5e5fa65R56

https://github.com/soyuka/core/blob/7e2e8f9ff322ac5f6eb5f65baf432bffdca0fd51/src/Symfony/Security/State/AccessCheckerProvider.php#L49-L57

PoC

Create a graphql endpoint with a security after resolver.

Impact

As this fallsback to security, the impact is there only when there's only a security after resolver and none inside security. The test at https://github.com/api-platform/core/pull/6444 is probably broken.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-23204 is classified as CWE-20: Improper Input Validation. The application accepts input without checking that it has the expected form, so malformed values reach code that assumes they are well formed.

Affected software

CVE-2025-23204 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • api-platform/core (from 3.3.8 up to 3.3.15)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 24 March 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

api-platform/core has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-20: Improper Input Validation) in other software:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 4.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-20
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-03-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-03-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
api-platform/core 3.3.8 3.3.15
unknown

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