GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-2hm9-h873-pgqh OpenFGA Vulnerable to DoS from circular relationship definitions

MEDIUM Published 2023-09-28 Modified 2023-09-28 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2023-43645
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/openfga/openfga
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-835
Reviewed
2023-09-28

Affected packages

• Go github.com/openfga/openfga: < 1.3.2 → fixed in 1.3.2

Description

Overview OpenFGA is vulnerable to a DoS 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. Am I Affected? Yes, if your store contains an authorization model that allows circular relationships. For example, with this model: ``` model schema 1.1 type user type group relations define memberA: [user] or memberB or memberC or memberD or memberE define memberB: [user] or memberA or memberC or memberD or memberE define memberC: [user] or memberA or memberB or memberD or memberE define memberD: [user] or memberA or memberB or memberC or memberE define memberE: [user] or memberA or memberB or memberC or memberD ``` This Check: `(user:anne, memberA, group:X)` can exhaust memory in the server. Fix Upgrade to v1.3.2 and update any offending models. [BREAKING] If your model contained cycles or a relation definition that has the relation itself in its evaluation path, then Checks and queries that require evaluation will no longer be evaluated on v1.3.2+ and will return errors instead. You will need to update your models to remove the cycles.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2023-43645 OpenFGA is an authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References