Permission denial and server crash via chunk overflow
Published Mar 1, 2024 · Updated Apr 16, 2025
Integer overflow in SpiceDB before 1.29.2 allows remote authenticated users to deny permissions or crash the server through wide relations. ForEachChunkUntil truncates the relationship-slice length and chunk indexes to 16 bits, causing wraparound and incomplete or invalid dispatch chunks. Exploitation requires more than 65,535 same-type relationships for one resource and affects CheckPermission, BulkCheckPermission, and LookupSubjects.
Summary
What happened
Integer overflow in SpiceDB before 1.29.2 allows remote authenticated users to deny permissions or crash the server through wide relations. ForEachChunkUntil truncates the relationship-slice length and chunk indexes to 16 bits, causing wraparound and incomplete or invalid dispatch chunks. Exploitation requires more than 65,535 same-type relationships for one resource and affects CheckPermission, BulkCheckPermission, and LookupSubjects.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-27101
- Published
- Mar 1, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 16, 2025
- Vendor
- AuthZed
- Product
- SpiceDB
- Classifications
- CWE-190, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Mar 1, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 16, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 1.29.2
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