authzed spicedb up to 1.35.2 privileges management

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in authzed spicedb up to 1.35.2. Impacted is an unknown function. This manipulation causes privileges management. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-46989. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in authzed spicedb up to 1.35.2. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

spicedb is an Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired permissions database to enable fine-grained authorization for customer applications. Multiple caveats over the same indirect subject type on the same relation can result in no permission being returned when permission is expected. If the resource has multiple groups, and each group is caveated, it is possible for the returned permission to be "no permission" when permission is expected. Permission is returned as NO_PERMISSION when PERMISSION is expected on the CheckPermission API. This issue has been addressed in release version 1.35.3. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should not use caveats or avoid the use of caveats on an indirect subject type with multiple entries.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-46989 since 09/16/2024. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.35.3 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch d4ef8e1dbce1eafaf25847f4c0f09738820f5bf2 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• authzed

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• spicedb

Version

• 1.35.0
• 1.35.1
• 1.35.2

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/

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