CVE-2023-43645

MEDIUM EPSS 50.4%
Published Sep 27, 20232y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
5.9 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Sep 27, 2023 2y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

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 Details

Base Score
5.9
Exploitability
2.2
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
50.4% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-835

Affected Products 1

VendorProductVersionRange
openfgaopenfga* <1.3.2

References 2

  • github.com https://github.com/openfga/openfga/commit/725296025fd81227c89525808652c6acd4a605f6
    Patch
  • github.com https://github.com/openfga/openfga/security/advisories/GHSA-2hm9-h873-pgqh
    Vendor Advisory

Remediation

  • github.com https://github.com/openfga/openfga/commit/725296025fd81227c89525808652c6acd4a605f6
    Patch