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

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.3.4, 2.11.5, 2.20.1
- Published: 2023-03-14 · Updated: 2025-02-25

## Affected

- hasura graphql-engine: fixed in 1.3.4; from 2.0.0, fixed in 2.11.5; from 2.2.0, fixed in 2.20.1

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on hasura graphql-engine, upgrade to a fixed version (1.3.4, 2.11.5, 2.20.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/security/advisories/GHSA-c9rw-rw2f-mj4x
- https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/commit/dda54543ee1ecf647ca5d0971b140c3a7b9f4158
- https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/releases/tag/v1.3.4
- https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/releases/tag/v2.11.5
- https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/releases/tag/v2.20.1
- https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/releases/tag/v2.21.0-beta.1

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