The Red Agent POV: Exploiting Broken Object-Level Authorization in an Airline GraphQL API
Wiz's red team bypassed GraphQL resolver-level controls to expose an airline's entire booking database in minutes, providing a practical case study of how broken object-level authorisation remains an acute API risk.
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Part 2: How the Red Agent bypassed backend resolvers to expose an entire airline booking database in fifteen minutes
Editorial Analysis
GraphQL's nested resolver architecture makes BOLA vulnerabilities particularly hard to detect and easy to exploit, a concern for any enterprise exposing complex APIs.
Prioritise BOLA/IDOR testing in GraphQL API security assessments and ensure resolver-level authorisation checks are enforced consistently.
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