CVE-2022-21646

Lookup operations do not take into account wildcards in SpiceDB

State
Published
Severity
8.1 High
Published
Jan 11, 2022
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Nov 16, 2021

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Description

SpiceDB is a database system for managing security-critical application permissions. Any user making use of a wildcard relationship under the right hand branch of an `exclusion` or within an `intersection` operation will see `Lookup`/`LookupResources` return a resource as "accessible" if it is *not* accessible by virtue of the inclusion of the wildcard in the intersection or the right side of the exclusion. In `v1.3.0`, the wildcard is ignored entirely in lookup's dispatch, resulting in the `banned` wildcard being ignored in the exclusion. Version 1.4.0 contains a patch for this issue. As a workaround, don't make use of wildcards on the right side of intersections or within exclusions.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-155 Improper Neutralization of Wildcards or Matching Symbols
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

ProductVersions
spicedbauthzed
  • = 1.3.0Affected

References

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