GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-4vrg-r928-h5vv SpiceDB: Checks involving relations with caveats can result in unconditional permission when conditional permission is expected

LOW Published 2026-06-19 Modified 2026-06-19 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-55866
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/authzed/spicedb
Severity
Low
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-863
Reviewed
2026-06-19

Affected packages

• Go github.com/authzed/spicedb: >= 1.34.0, < 1.54.0 → fixed in 1.54.0

Description

Impact Under concurrency, `CheckPermission` and `CheckBulkPermissions` can return `PERMISSIONSHIP_HAS_PERMISSION` for a (resource, permission, subject) whose correct answer is `PERMISSIONSHIP_CONDITIONAL_PERMISSION`. You are impacted if all of the following hold: 1. Your schema has a permission combining relations with an intersection or exclusion, where a subject reaches it through a caveated branch and a non-caveated branch. For example: ```zed definition user {} caveat some_caveat(somecondition int) { somecondition == 42 } definition document { relation reader: user | user with some_caveat relation writer: user relation banned: user permission has_permission = (reader & writer) - banned } ``` 2. A subject reaches the permission via the caveated edge: ``` document:firstdoc#reader@user:caveatedreader[some_caveat] document:firstdoc#writer@user:caveatedreader ``` 3. Your workload issues `LookupResources` with a `context` request parameter, concurrently with `CheckPermission/CheckBulkPermissions` for the same subject/resource, and 4. The dispatch result cache is enabled. When all of the above are true, there is an intermittent window in which: `CheckPermission(document:firstdoc, has_permission, user:caveatedreader)` → HAS_PERMISSION (incorrect; should be CONDITIONAL_PERMISSION) `CheckPermission(document:firstdoc, has_permission, user:caveatedreader, context = {"somecondition": 41})` → HAS_PERMISSION (incorrect; should be NO_PERMISSION) Patches v1.54.0 Workarounds Disable the dispatch result cache (`ClusterDispatchCacheConfig` and `DispatchCacheConfig`)

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-55866 SpiceDB is an open source database system for creating and managing security-critical application permissions. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References