Authorization bypass via rewritten tupleset validation
Published Oct 25, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025
Improper authorization in OpenFGA 0.2.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass relationship-based access checks. The authorization-model validator accepts a relation used as a tuple-to-userset tupleset after confirming only that the relation exists, without requiring the direct “this” rewrite. Exposure requires a model whose from clause uses a rewritten, rather than direct, tupleset relation; affected checks can grant access that the model should deny.
Summary
What happened
Improper authorization in OpenFGA 0.2.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass relationship-based access checks. The authorization-model validator accepts a relation used as a tuple-to-userset tupleset after confirming only that the relation exists, without requiring the direct “this” rewrite. Exposure requires a model whose from clause uses a rewritten, rather than direct, tupleset relation; affected checks can grant access that the model should deny.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-39342
- Published
- Oct 25, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 23, 2025
- Vendor
- OpenFGA
- Product
- OpenFGA
- Classifications
- CWE-285, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Oct 25, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 23, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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