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

References