OpenFGA up to 1.11.2 authorization

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in OpenFGA up to 1.11.2. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-24851. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in OpenFGA up to 1.11.2 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-863. The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

OpenFGA is a high-performance and flexible authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar. OpenFGA v1.8.5 to v1.11.2 ( openfga-0.2.22<= Helm chart <= openfga-0.2.51, v.1.8.5 <= docker <= v.1.11.2) are vulnerable to improper policy enforcement when certain Check calls are executed. The vulnerability requires a model that has a a relation directly assignable by a type bound public access and assignable by type bound non-public access, a tuple assigned for the relation that is a type bound public access, a tuple assigned for the same object with the same relation that is not type bound public access, and a tuple assigned for a different object that has an object ID lexicographically larger with the same user and relation which is not type bound public access. This vulnerability is fixed in v1.11.3.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-24851 since 01/27/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.11.3 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com.

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• OpenFGA

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• 1.11.0
• 1.11.1
• 1.11.2

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• Product: https://github.com/openfga/openfga/

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