# CVE-2026-35526: Strawberry GraphQL affected by a Denial of Service via unbounded WebSocket subscriptions

- Also known as: GHSA-HV3W-M4G2-5X77, PYSEC-2026-134
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.312.3
- Published: 2026-04-07 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- strawberry-graphql strawberry: fixed in 0.312.3
- strawberry-graphql (PyPI): fixed in 0.312.3

## Description

Strawberry GraphQL is a library for creating GraphQL APIs. Prior to 0.312.3, Strawberry GraphQL's WebSocket subscription handlers for both the graphql-transport-ws and legacy graphql-ws protocols allocate an asyncio.Task and associated Operation object for every incoming subscribe message without enforcing any limit on the number of active subscriptions per connection. An unauthenticated attacker can open a single WebSocket connection, send connection_init, and then flood subscribe messages with unique IDs. Each message unconditionally spawns a new asyncio.Task and async generator, causing linear memory growth and event loop saturation. This leads to server degradation or an OOM crash. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.312.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on strawberry-graphql strawberry, strawberry-graphql, upgrade to a fixed version (0.312.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/security/advisories/GHSA-hv3w-m4g2-5x77

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