# CVE-2025-64347: Apollo Router Improperly Enforces Renamed Access Control Directives

- Also known as: GHSA-G8JH-VG5J-4H3F
- 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: 1.61.12, 2.8.1
- Published: 2025-11-07 · Updated: 2025-11-07

## Affected

- apollographql router: fixed in 1.61.12; from 2.8.1-rc.0, fixed in 2.8.1
- apollo-router (crates.io): fixed in 1.61.12
- apollo-router (crates.io): from 2.0.0-alpha.0, fixed in 2.8.1

## Description

Apollo Router Core is a configurable Rust graph router written to run a federated supergraph using Apollo Federation 2. Versions 1.61.12-rc.0 and below and 2.8.1-rc.0 allow unauthorized access to protected data through schema elements with access control directives (@authenticated, @requiresScopes, and @policy) that were renamed via @link imports. Router did not enforce renamed access control directives on schema elements (e.g. fields and types), allowing queries to bypass those element-level access controls. This issue is fixed in versions 1.61.12 and 2.8.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on apollographql router, apollo-router, upgrade to a fixed version (1.61.12, 2.8.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/apollographql/router/security/advisories/GHSA-g8jh-vg5j-4h3f
- https://github.com/apollographql/router/commit/78e4b20a2fc26cc5f141aa47992ed85375266a2b

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