GraphQL Cop - Security Audit Utility for GraphQL

About

GraphQL Cop is a small Python utility to run common security tests against GraphQL APIs. GraphQL Cop is perfect for running CI/CD checks in GraphQL. It is lightweight, and covers interesting security issues in GraphQL.

GraphQL Cop allows you to reproduce the findings by providing cURL commands upon any identified vulnerabilities.

Requirements

• Python3
• Requests Library

Detections

• Alias Overloading (DoS)
• Batch Queries (DoS)
• GET based Queries (CSRF)
• POST based Queries using urlencoded payloads (CSRF)
• GraphQL Tracing / Debug Modes (Info Leak)
• Field Duplication (DoS)
• Field Suggestions (Info Leak)
• GraphiQL (Info Leak)
• Introspection (Info Leak)
• Directives Overloading (DoS)
• Circular Query using Introspection (DoS)
• Mutation support over GET methods (CSRF)

Usage

$ python graphql-cop.py -h

Usage: graphql-cop.py -t http://example.com -o json

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t URL, --target=URL  target url with the path - if a GraphQL path is not
                        provided, GraphQL Cop will iterate through a series of
                        common GraphQL paths
  -H HEADER, --header=HEADER
                        Append Header(s) to the request '{"Authorization":
                        "Bearer eyjt"}' - Use multiple -H for additional
                        Headers
  -o FORMAT, --output=FORMAT
                        json
  -f, --force           Forces a scan when GraphQL cannot be detected
  -d, --debug           Append a header with the test name for debugging
  -x PROXY, --proxy=PROXY
                        HTTP(S) proxy URL in the form
                        http://user:pass@host:port
  -v, --version         Print out the current version and exit.

Test a website

$ python3 graphql-cop.py -t https://mywebsite.com/graphql

                GraphQL Cop 1.1
           Security Auditor for GraphQL
            Dolev Farhi & Nick Aleks

Starting...
[HIGH] Introspection Query Enabled (Information Leakage)
[LOW] GraphQL Playground UI (Information Leakage)
[HIGH] Alias Overloading with 100+ aliases is allowed (Denial of Service)
[HIGH] Queries are allowed with 1000+ of the same repeated field (Denial of Service)

Test a website, dump to a parse-able JSON output, cURL reproduction command

python3 graphql-cop.py -t https://mywebsite.com/graphql -o json

 {'curl_verify': 'curl -X POST -H "User-Agent: graphql-cop/1.2" -H '
                 '"Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" -H "Accept: */*" -H '
                 '"Connection: keep-alive" -H "Content-Length: 33" -H '
                 '"Content-Type: application/json" -d \'{"query": "query { '
                 '__typename }"}\' \'http://localhost:5013/graphql\'',
  'description': 'Tracing is Enabled',
  'impact': 'Information Leakage',
  'result': False,
  'severity': 'INFO',
  'color': 'green',
  'title': 'Trace Mode'},
 {'curl_verify': 'curl -X POST -H "User-Agent: graphql-cop/1.2" -H '
                 '"Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" -H "Accept: */*" -H '
                 '"Connection: keep-alive" -H "Content-Length: 64" -H '
                 '"Content-Type: application/json" -d \'{"query": "query { '
                 '__typename @aa@aa@aa@aa@aa@aa@aa@aa@aa@aa }"}\' '
                 "'http://localhost:5013/graphql'",
  'description': 'Multiple duplicated directives allowed in a query',
  'impact': 'Denial of Service',
  'result': True,
  'severity': 'HIGH',
  'color': 'red',
  'title': 'Directive Overloading'}]

Test a website using graphql-cop through a proxy (e.g. Burp Suite listening on 127.0.0.1:8080) with custom headers (e.g. Authorization):

$ python3 graphql-cop.py -t https://mywebsite.com/graphql --proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8080 --header '{"Authorization": "Bearer token_here"}'

                GraphQL Cop 1.2
           Security Auditor for GraphQL
            Dolev Farhi & Nick Aleks

Starting...
[HIGH] Introspection Query Enabled (Information Leakage)
[LOW] GraphQL Playground UI (Information Leakage)
[HIGH] Alias Overloading with 100+ aliases is allowed (Denial of Service)
[HIGH] Queries are allowed with 1000+ of the same repeated field (Denial of Service)