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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43967"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T15:42:34.347Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-09T04:18:14.810Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43967"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43967.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43967"
title: "Quadratic fragment-name uniqueness check causes denial of service in absinthe"
summary: "Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity vulnerability in absinthe-graphql absinthe allows unauthenticated denial of service via quadratic fragment-name uniqueness validation.\n\n'Elixir.Absinthe.Phase.Document.Validation.UniqueFragmentNames':run/2 iterates over all fragments and for each one calls duplicate?/2, which evaluates Enum.count(fragments, &(&1.name == name)) — a full linear scan of the fragment list. The result is O(N²) comparisons per document, where N is the number of fragment definitions supplied by the caller.\n\nBecause input.fragments is built directly from the GraphQL query body, N is fully attacker-controlled. A minimum-size fragment definition is roughly 16 bytes, so a ~1 MB document carries ~60,000 fragments and forces ~3.6 × 10⁹ comparisons inside this single validation phase. No authentication, schema knowledge, or special configuration is required.\n\nThis issue affects absinthe: from 1.2.0 before 1.10.2."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1.2.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.10.2"}],"vendor":"absinthe-graphql","product":"absinthe","packageName":"absinthe","collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0b46e3bcc06c0d3797bacd64761b908a84646c1d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"223600c520493dcaf95080af552c413099f92c9d"}],"vendor":"absinthe-graphql","product":"absinthe","packageName":"absinthe-graphql/absinthe","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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