CVE-2023-27588: Unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability in Hasura GraphQL Engine

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

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 should be upgraded to version 1.3.4, 2.55.1, 2.20.1, or 2.21.0-beta1 to receive a patch.

Affected products

Hasura GraphQL: before 1.3.4; from 2.0.0 before 2.11.5; from 2.12.0 before 2.20.1 — fixed in 1.3.4, 2.11.5, 2.20.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Hasura GraphQL 1.3.4, 2.11.5, 2.20.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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