Medium severity · published Sep 27, 2023
CVE-2023-43645
OpenFGA is an authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar
5.9
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 61% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
Openfga · Openfga
before 1.3.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-43645
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-43645
Patch
https://github.com/openfga/openfga/commit/725296025fd81227c89525808652c6acd4a605f6
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/openfga/openfga/security/advisories/GHSA-2hm9-h873-pgqh
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