Update dependency graphql to v16.8.1 [SECURITY]

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
graphql	16.6.0 → 16.8.1
graphql	^15.5.1 → ^16.0.0

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graphql Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

CVE-2023-26144 / GHSA-9pv7-vfvm-6vr7

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Details

Versions of the package graphql from 16.3.0 and before 16.8.1 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to insufficient checks in the OverlappingFieldsCanBeMergedRule.ts file when parsing large queries. This vulnerability allows an attacker to degrade system performance.

Note: It was not proven that this vulnerability can crash the process.

Severity

• CVSS Score: 5.3 / 10 (Medium)
• Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26144
• https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/issues/3955
• https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/pull/3972
• https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/releases/tag/v16.8.1
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRAPHQL-5905181
• https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/commit/8f4c64eb6a7112a929ffeef00caa67529b3f2fcf
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9pv7-vfvm-6vr7

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

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Release Notes

graphql/graphql-js (graphql)

v16.8.1

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v16.8.1 (2023-09-19)

Bug Fix 🐞

• #​3967 OverlappingFieldsCanBeMergedRule: Fix performance degradation (@​AaronMoat)

Committers: 1

• Aaron Moat(@​AaronMoat)

v16.8.0

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v16.8.0 (2023-08-14)

New Feature 🚀

• #​3950 Support fourfold nested lists (@​gschulze)

Committers: 1

• Gunnar Schulze(@​gschulze)

v16.7.1

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v16.7.1 (2023-06-22)

📢 Big shout out to @​phryneas, who managed to reproduce this issue and come up with this fix.

Bug Fix 🐞

• #​3923 instanceOf: workaround bundler issue with process.env (@​IvanGoncharov)

Committers: 1

• Ivan Goncharov(@​IvanGoncharov)

v16.7.0

Compare Source

v16.7.0 (2023-06-21)

New Feature 🚀

• #​3887 check "globalThis.process" before accessing it (@​kettanaito)

Bug Fix 🐞

• #​3707 Fix crash in node when mixing sync/async resolvers (backport of #​3706) (@​chrskrchr)
• #​3838 Fix/invalid error propagation custom scalars (backport for 16.x.x) (@​stenreijers)

Committers: 3

• Artem Zakharchenko(@​kettanaito)
• Chris Karcher(@​chrskrchr)
• Sten Reijers(@​stenreijers)

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File name: apollo-server/v3/subscriptions-graphql-ws/package-lock.json

npm warn Unknown env config "store". This will error in a future major version of npm. See `npm help npmrc` for supported config options.
npm error code ERESOLVE
npm error ERESOLVE could not resolve
npm error
npm error While resolving: @graphql-tools/schema@7.1.5
npm error Found: graphql@16.14.2
npm error node_modules/graphql
npm error   graphql@"^16.0.0" from the root project
npm error   peer graphql@"14.x || 15.x || 16.x" from @apollo/utils.dropunuseddefinitions@1.1.0
npm error   node_modules/@apollo/utils.dropunuseddefinitions
npm error     @apollo/utils.dropunuseddefinitions@"^1.1.0" from @apollo/utils.usagereporting@1.0.1
npm error     node_modules/@apollo/utils.usagereporting
npm error       @apollo/utils.usagereporting@"^1.0.0" from apollo-server-core@3.12.0
npm error       node_modules/apollo-server-core
npm error         apollo-server-core@"^3.6.2" from the root project
npm error         1 more (apollo-server-express)
npm error   22 more (@apollo/utils.printwithreducedwhitespace, ...)
npm error
npm error Could not resolve dependency:
npm error peer graphql@"^14.0.0 || ^15.0.0" from @graphql-tools/schema@7.1.5
npm error node_modules/@graphql-tools/schema
npm error   @graphql-tools/schema@"^7.1.5" from the root project
npm error
npm error Conflicting peer dependency: graphql@15.10.3
npm error node_modules/graphql
npm error   peer graphql@"^14.0.0 || ^15.0.0" from @graphql-tools/schema@7.1.5
npm error   node_modules/@graphql-tools/schema
npm error     @graphql-tools/schema@"^7.1.5" from the root project
npm error
npm error Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry this command with --force or --legacy-peer-deps to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.
npm error
npm error
npm error For a full report see:
npm error /runner/cache/others/npm/_logs/2026-09-15T14_47_07_628Z-eresolve-report.txt
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /runner/cache/others/npm/_logs/2026-09-15T14_47_07_628Z-debug-0.log