Description
Mercurius is a GraphQL adapter for Fastify. Any users from Mercurius@8.10.0 to 8.11.1 are subjected to a denial of service attack by sending a malformed JSON to `/graphql` unless they are using a custom error handler. The vulnerability has been fixed in https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/pull/678 and shipped as v8.11.2. As a workaround users may use a custom error handler.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/issues/677
https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/pull/678/commits/732b2f895312da8deadd7b173dcd2d141d54b223
https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/security/advisories/GHSA-273r-rm8g-7f3x
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