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CVE-2026-19869

Privilege Escalation via Dropped Field-Level @authentication PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

@neo4j/graphql from 5.2.0 until the patched versions fails to enforce field-level @authentication rules on root custom-resolver fields when a type-level @authentication rule is also present on the same operation type. When both a type-level @authentication (on Query/Mutation) and a field-level @authentication (on a root custom-resolver field within that type) are declared, only the type-level rule is evaluated and the field-level rule is silently discarded. As a result a stricter per-field requirement — such as an admin-role JWT claim (jwt: { roles_INCLUDES: "admin" }) — is never checked, and any client that satisfies the coarser type-level requirement can invoke the more-restricted field. No token forgery is involved: a legitimately issued, correctly signed non-admin token (e.g. roles: ["user"]) is sufficient.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
neo4j / graphqlaffected 7.0.0 before 7.6.0; affected 5.2.0 before 5.12.15; affected 6.0.0 through 6.6.4

CWE

CWE-639

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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