build(deps): [security] bump apollo-server-core from 2.12.0 to 2.14.4 in /backend

Created by: Tirokk

Authored by dependabot-preview[bot] Jun 15, 2020 Closed Jun 17, 2020

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Bumps apollo-server-core from 2.12.0 to 2.14.4. This update includes a security fix.

Vulnerabilities fixed

Sourced from The GitHub Security Advisory Database.

Introspection in schema validation in Apollo Server We encourage all users of Apollo Server to read this advisory in its entirety to understand the impact. The Resolution section contains details on patched versions.

Impact

If subscriptions: false is passed to the ApolloServer constructor options, there is no impact. If implementors were not expecting validation rules to be enforced on the WebSocket subscriptions transport and are unconcerned about introspection being enabled on the WebSocket subscriptions transport (or were not expecting that), then this advisory is not applicable. If introspection: true is passed to the ApolloServer constructor options, the impact is limited to user-provided validation rules (i.e., using validationRules) since there would be no expectation that introspection was disabled.

The enforcement of user-provided validation rules on the HTTP transport is working as intended and is unaffected by this advisory. Similarly, disabling introspection on the HTTP transport is working as intended and is unaffected by this advisory.

Note: Unless subscriptions: false is explicitly passed to the constructor parameters of new ApolloServer({ ... }), subscriptions are enabled by default, whether or not there is a Subscription type present in the schema. As an alternative to upgrading to a patched version, see the Workarounds section below to disable subscriptions if it is not necessary.

In cases where subscriptions: false is not explicitly set, the subscription server is impacted since validation rules which are enforced on the main request pipeline within Apollo Server were not being passed to the SubscriptionServer.create invocation (seen here, prior to the patch).

The omitted validation rules for the subscription server include any validationRules passed by implementors to the ApolloServer constructor which were expected to be enforced on the subscriptions WebSocket endpoint. Additionally, because an internal NoIntrospection validation rule is used to disable introspection, it would have been possible to introspect a server on the WebSocket endpoint that the SubscriptionServer creates even though it was not possible on other transports (e.g. HTTP).

The severity of risk depends on whether sensitive information is being stored in the schema itself. The contents of schema descriptions, or secrets which might be revealed by the names of types or field names within those types, will determine the risk to individual implementors.

Affected packages

The bug existed in apollo-server-core versions prior to version 2.14.2, however, this means all integration packages (e.g., apollo-server-express, etc.) prior to version 2.14.2 which depend on apollo-server-core for their subscriptions support are affected. This includes the apollo-server package that automatically provides an Express server.

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Affected versions: < 2.14.2

Changelog

Sourced from apollo-server-core's changelog.

v2.14.4

The changes noted within this vNEXT section have not been released yet. New PRs and commits which introduce changes should include an entry in this vNEXT section as part of their development. With few exceptions, the format of the entry should follow convention (i.e., prefix with package name, use markdown backtick formatting for package names and code, suffix with a link to the change-set à la [PR #YYY](https://link/pull/YYY), etc.). When a release is being prepared, a new header will be (manually) created below and the appropriate changes within that release will be moved into the new section.

• apollo-engine-reporting: Add environment variable APOLLO_SCHEMA_REPORTING that can enable schema reporting. If experimental__schemaReporting is set it will override the environment variable. [PR #4206](apollographql/apollo-server#4206)
• apollo-engine-reporting: The schema reporting URL has been changed to use the new dedicated sub-domain https://edge-server-reporting.api.apollographql.com. [PR #4232](apollographql/apollo-server#4232)
• apollo-server-core: Though Apollo Server is not affected due to the way it is integrated, in response to an upstream security advisory for GraphQL Playground we have published the same patch on our @apollographql/graphql-playground-html fork and bumped Apollo Server to use it. Again, this was done out of an abundance of caution since the way that Apollo Server utilizes renderPlaygroundPage is not vulnerable as it does not allow per-request Playground configuration that could allow interpolation of user-input. [PR #4231](apollographql/apollo-server#4231)

v2.14.3

• This release only includes patch updates to dependencies.

v2.14.2

Note: This release is is related to a GitHub Security Advisory published by the Apollo Server team. Please read the attached advisory to understand the impact.

• ️ SECURITY: Pass all schema validation rules to the subscription server, including validation rules that restrict introspection when introspection is meant to be disabled. Read the full GitHub Security Advisory for details.

v2.14.1

See complete versioning details.

• apollo-server-testing: Ensure that user-provided context is cloned when using createTestClient, per the instructions in the intergration testing section of the Apollo Server documentation. [Issue #4170](apollographql/apollo-server#4170) [PR #4175](apollographql/apollo-server#4175)

v2.14.0

See complete versioning details.

• apollo-server-core / apollo-server-plugin-base: Add support for willResolveField and corresponding end-handler within executionDidStart. This brings the remaining bit of functionality that was previously only available from graphql-extensions to the new plugin API. The graphql-extensions API (which was never documented) will be deprecated in Apollo Server 3.x. To see the documentation for the request pipeline API, see its documentation. For more details, see the attached PR. [PR #3988](apollographql/apollo-server#3988)

• apollo-server-core: Deprecate graphql-extensions. All internal usages of the graphql-extensions API have been migrated to the request pipeline plugin API. For any implementor-supplied extensions, a deprecation warning will be printed once per-extension, per-server-startup, notifying of the intention to deprecate. Extensions should migrate to the plugin API, which is outlined in its documentation. [PR #4135](apollographql/apollo-server#4135)

• apollo-engine-reporting: Currently only for non-federated graphs. Added an experimental schema reporting option, experimental_schemaReporting, for Apollo Graph Manager users. During this experiment, we'd appreciate testing and feedback from current and new users of the schema registry!

  Prior to the introduction of this feature, the only way to get schemas into the schema registry in Apollo Graph Manager was to use the CLI and run apollo schema:push. Apollo schema reporting protocol is a new specification for GraphQL servers to automatically report schemas to the Apollo Graph Manager schema registry.

  To enable schema reporting, provide a Graph Manager API key (available free from Apollo Graph Manager) in the APOLLO_KEY environment variable and set the experimental_schemaReporting option to true in the Apollo Server constructor options, like so:

  const server = new ApolloServer({
    typeDefs,

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Commits

• 0ddf084 Release
• a7923b6 Revert "Release"
• 1033029 Fix TS errors from cherry-picked commit: 34a5c54
• 8b07527 Release
• 34a5c54 Add startup logging to schema reporting
• 045ac3e chore(deps): update dependency @apollographql/graphql-playground-html to v1.6.26
• d8b7f34 docs: Remove Zeit Now v1 deployment guide (#3648)
• 3d7c8fe Update CHANGELOG.md
• 1c4309c Final updates to changelog before release
• 672fb1b gateway(feat): Allow complete SDL - follow-up to #4209 (#4228)
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