# RUSTSEC-2026-0416: Stack overflow on deeply nested GraphQL documents

- Also known as: GHSA-34CW-X8G7-RCV5
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.17.2
- Published: 2026-10-28 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Summary

The `juniper` Rust library for GraphQL is affected: a single crafted, deeply nested GraphQL request can overflow the stack during parsing, validation, or execution, crashing the entire server process and dropping all other in-progress requests. No authentication is required to trigger it.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- juniper (crates.io): from 0.0.0-0, fixed in 0.17.2

## Description

The parser of `juniper` called itself once for each level of nesting in a GraphQL document. The parser had no limit on the nesting depth. Deeply nested selection sets, input values, and list types thus overflowed the stack of the thread that parsed the document. Validation and execution followed fragment spreads in the same recursive way. Long chains of fragment spreads thus overflowed the stack in validation and execution. A stack overflow aborts the whole process. One request can thus stop a server and drop all other requests in progress. The request needs no authentication. `juniper` 0.17.2 rejects documents that nest deeper than 64 levels or contain more than 15,000 tokens. `RootNode::limit_depth()` and `RootNode::limit_tokens()` change the limits.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on juniper, upgrade to a fixed version (0.17.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://crates.io/crates/juniper
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0416.html
- https://github.com/graphql-rust/juniper/pull/1405

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