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CRITICAL9.1

GHSA-3m5v-4xp5-gjg2

Graphiti Affected by Arbitrary Method Execution via Unvalidated Relationship Names

Quick fix

GHSA-3m5v-4xp5-gjg2 — graphiti: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update graphiti

Details

### Summary

An arbitrary method execution vulnerability has been found which affects Graphiti's JSONAPI write functionality. An attacker can craft a malicious JSONAPI payload with arbitrary relationship names to invoke any public method on the underlying model instance, class or its associations.

### Impact

Any application exposing Graphiti write endpoints (create/update/delete) to untrusted users is affected.

The `Graphiti::Util::ValidationResponse#all_valid?` method recursively calls `model.send(name)` using relationship names taken directly from user-supplied JSONAPI payloads, without validating them against the resource's configured sideloads. This allows an attacker to potentially run any public method on a given model instance, on the instance class or associated instances or classes, including destructive operations.

### Patches

This is patched in Graphiti **v1.10.2**. Users should upgrade as soon as possible.

### Workarounds

If upgrading to v1.10.2 is not immediately possible, consider one or more of the following mitigations:

- **Restrict write access**: Ensure Graphiti write endpoints (create/update/delete) are not accessible to untrusted users. - **Authentication & authorisation**: Apply strong authentication and authorisation checks before any write operation is processed, for example use Rails strong parameters to ensure only valid parameters are processed.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/graphiti
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.10.2
Fixbundle update graphiti

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