CVE-2023-43645CWE-835

Denial of service from circular relationship definitions in OpenFGA

Medium · published September 26, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.9
EPSS
1%
Percentile
60.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

OpenFGA is an authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar. OpenFGA is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when certain Check calls are executed against authorization models that contain circular relationship definitions. When the call is made, it's possible for the server to exhaust resources and die. Users are advised to upgrade to v1.3.2 and update any offending models. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. Note that for models which contained cycles or a relation definition that has the relation itself in its evaluation path, checks and queries that require evaluation will no longer be evaluated on v1.3.2+ and will return errors instead. Users who do not have cyclic models are unaffected.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00937 · 60.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Published
2023-09-26T20:58Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 SEP 20:58Z
    Denial of service from circular relationship definitions in OpenFGA
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