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GHSA-4vrg-r928-h5vv
No affected components available
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:
- 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:
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
}
- A subject reaches the permission via the caveated edge:
document:firstdoc#reader@user:caveatedreader[some_caveat]
document:firstdoc#writer@user:caveatedreader
- Your workload issues
LookupResourceswith acontextrequest parameter, concurrently withCheckPermission/CheckBulkPermissionsfor the same subject/resource, and - 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)
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 low impact on the integrity of the data.
Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
- CVE-2026-55866Alias
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