CVE-2024-56323

OpenFGA Authorization Bypass

State: Published
Severity: 5.8 Medium
Published: Jan 13, 2025
Updated: Jan 14, 2025
Reserved: Dec 18, 2024

Description

OpenFGA is an authorization/permission engine. IN OpenFGA v1.3.8 to v1.8.2 (Helm chart openfga-0.1.38 to openfga-0.2.19, docker v1.3.8 to v.1.8.2) are vulnerable to authorization bypass under the following conditions: 1. calling Check API or ListObjects with a model that uses [conditions](https://openfga.dev/docs/modeling/conditions), and 2. calling Check API or ListObjects API with [contextual tuples](https://openfga.dev/docs/concepts#what-are-contextual-tuples) that include conditions and 3. OpenFGA is configured with caching enabled (`OPENFGA_CHECK_QUERY_CACHE_ENABLED`). Users are advised to upgrade to v1.8.3. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.8 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-285 Improper Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
openfgaopenfga	>=1.3.8, <1.8.3Affected

References

https://github.com/openfga/openfga/security/advisories/GHSA-32q6-rr98-cjqv

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