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GHSA-2hm9-h873-pgqh
No affected components available
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.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is difficult for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability and may require special conditions. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.
Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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