CVE-2026-40324
CriticalCVSS 9.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk60th percentile - higher than 60% of all known CVEs
Summary
Hot Chocolate, an open-source GraphQL server, prior to versions 12.22.7, 13.9.16, 14.3.1, and 15.1.14 has a recursive descent parser `Utf8GraphQLParser` with no recursion depth limit. A crafted GraphQL document with deeply nested selection sets, object values, list values, or list types can trigger a `StackOverflowException` on payloads as small as 40 KB. Because `StackOverflowException` is uncatchable in .NET, the entire worker process is terminated immediately, dropping all in-flight HTTP requests, background tasks, and open WebSocket subscriptions.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can remotely crash the GraphQL server worker process, causing denial of service (DoS) for all clients and forcing the orchestrator to restart the process. Due to the small payload size (40 KB) and high compressibility, the attack is easy to perform and can be repeated.
Recommendation
Immediately upgrade Hot Chocolate to version 12.22.7, 13.9.16, 14.3.1, or 15.1.14, which add the `MaxAllowedRecursionDepth` option and throw a catchable `SyntaxException`. There is no application-level workaround; risk can only be reduced by limiting HTTP request body size at the reverse proxy or load balancer layer.
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Original NVD description (English source)
Hot Chocolate is an open-source GraphQL server. Prior to versions 12.22.7, 13.9.16, 14.3.1, and 15.1.14, Hot Chocolate's recursive descent parser `Utf8GraphQLParser` has no recursion depth limit. A crafted GraphQL document with deeply nested selection sets, object values, list values, or list types can trigger a `StackOverflowException` on payloads as small as 40 KB. Because `StackOverflowException` is uncatchable in .NET (since .NET 2.0), the entire worker process is terminated immediately. All in-flight HTTP requests, background `IHostedService` tasks, and open WebSocket subscriptions on that worker are dropped. The orchestrator (Kubernetes, IIS, etc.) must restart the process. This occurs before any validation rules run — `MaxExecutionDepth`, complexity analyzers, persisted query allow-lists, and custom `IDocumentValidatorRule` implementations cannot intercept the crash because `Utf8GraphQLParser.Parse` is invoked before validation. The `MaxAllowedFields=2048` limit does not help because the crashing payloads contain very few fields. The fix in versions 12.22.7, 13.9.16, 14.3.1, and 15.1.14 adds a `MaxAllowedRecursionDepth` option to `ParserOptions` with a safe default, and enforces it across all recursive parser methods (`ParseSelectionSet`, `ParseValueLiteral`, `ParseObject`, `ParseList`, `ParseTypeReference`, etc.). When the limit is exceeded, a catchable `SyntaxException` is thrown instead of overflowing the stack. There is no application-level workaround. `StackOverflowException` cannot be caught in .NET. The only mitigation is to upgrade to a patched version. Operators can reduce (but not eliminate) risk by limiting HTTP request body size at the reverse proxy or load balancer layer, though the smallest crashing payload (40 KB) is well below most default body size limits and is highly compressible (~few hundred bytes via gzip).
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