🛡️ CVE-2022-23542 — openfga

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-285 NVD
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Description

OpenFGA Authorization Bypass

Overview

During our internal security assessment, it was discovered that OpenFGA versions v0.3.0 is vulnerable to authorization bypass under certain conditions.

Am I Affected?

You are affected by this vulnerability if all of the following applies:

1. You are using OpenFGA v0.3.0

2. You created a model using modeling language v1.1 that applies a type restriction to an object e.g. define viewer: [user]

3. You created tuples based on the aforementioned model, e.g. document:1#viewer@user:jon

4. You updated the previous model by adding a new type and replacing the previous restriction with the newly added type e.g. define viewer: [employee]

5. You use the tuples created against the first model (step 3) and issue checks against the updated model e.g. user=user:jon, relation=viewer, object:document:1

How to fix that?

Upgrade to version v0.3.1

Backward Compatibility

This update is backward compatible.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-23542 is classified as CWE-285: Improper Authorization. A request is carried out without confirming that the caller is permitted to perform it on that specific resource.

Affected software

CVE-2022-23542 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/openfga/openfga
  • openfga (fixed in 0.3.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 20 December 2022 and last revised on 3 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE CWE-285
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-12-20
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-03-03

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/openfga/openfga — —
openfga — 0.3.1

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