CVE-2022-23542 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

OpenFGA is an authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar. During an internal security assessment, it was discovered that OpenFGA version 0.3.0 is vulnerable to authorization bypass under certain conditions. This issue has been patched in version 0.3.1 and is backward compatible.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Openfga	Openfga

Configuration 1 [-]

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/openfga/openfga/pull/422
https://github.com/openfga/openfga/releases/tag/v0.3.1
https://github.com/openfga/openfga/security/advisories/GHSA-m3q4-7qmj-657m

History

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2022-12-20T20:15:16.628Z

Updated: 2025-04-16T14:43:38.712Z

Reserved: 2022-01-19T21:23:53.796Z

Link: CVE-2022-23542

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T03:43:46.451Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-20T21:15:10.493

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:48:46.757

Link: CVE-2022-23542

Redhat

No data.

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