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🛡️ CVE-2024-48909 — spicedb

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-172 NVD
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

SpiceDB calls to LookupResources using LookupResources2 with caveats may return context is missing when it is not

Impact

Clients that have enabled LookupResources2 and have caveats in the evaluation path for their requests can return a permissionship of CONDITIONAL with context marked as missing, even then the context was supplied.

LookupResources2 is the new default in SpiceDB 1.37.0 and has been opt-in since SpiceDB 1.35.0

Patches

The bug will be released as part of SpiceDB 1.37.1

Workarounds

Disable LookupResources2 via the --enable-experimental-lookup-resources flag by setting it to false

```

--enable-experimental-lookup-resources=false

```

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-48909 is classified as CWE-172: Encoding Error. The product does not properly encode or decode the data, resulting in unexpected values.

Affected software

CVE-2024-48909 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/authzed/spicedb
  • spicedb (from 1.35.0 up to 1.37.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 October 2024 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)

Other advisories for this package

github.com/authzed/spicedb has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-172: Encoding Error) in other software:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-172
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-10-14
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-03-03

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/authzed/spicedb — —
spicedb 1.35.0 1.37.1

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