authzed/spicedb · Security
SpiceDB exclusions can result in no permission returned when permission expected
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-grjv-gjgr-66g2
- CVE ID
- CVE-2024-38361
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 3.7 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 3.7 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 6.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Background
Use of an exclusion under an arrow that has multiple resources may resolve to NO_PERMISSION when permission is expected.
For example, given this schema:
definition user {}
definition folder {
relation member: user
relation banned: user
permission view = member - banned
}
definition resource {
relation folder: folder
permission view = folder->view
}
If the resource exists under multiple folders and the user has access to view more than a single folder, SpiceDB may report the user does not have access due to a failure in the exclusion dispatcher to request that all the folders in which the user is a member be returned
Impact
Permission is returned as NO_PERMISSION when PERMISSION is expected on the CheckPermission API.
Workarounds
None
CWEs
- CWE-281 · Improper Preservation of Permissions