{"schema_version":"1.9.0","id":"GHSA-g4v5-6f5p-m38j","published":"2025-02-19T20:25:22Z","modified":"2026-09-10T03:50:06.210425557Z","aliases":["CVE-2025-25196","GO-2025-3470"],"summary":"OpenFGA Authorization Bypass","details":"Overview\nOpenFGA v1.8.4 or previous (Helm chart < openfga-0.2.22, docker < v.1.8.5) are vulnerable to authorization bypass when certain Check and ListObject calls are executed.\n\nAm I Affected?\nIf you are using OpenFGA v1.8.4 or previous, specifically under the following conditions, you are affected by this authorization bypass vulnerability:\n\n- Calling Check API or ListObjects with a model that has a relation [directly assignable](https://openfga.dev/docs/concepts#what-is-a-directly-related-user-type) to both [public access](https://openfga.dev/docs/concepts#what-is-type-bound-public-access) AND [userset](https://openfga.dev/docs/concepts#what-is-a-user) with the [same type](https://openfga.dev/docs/concepts#what-is-a-type), and\n- A type bound public access tuple is assigned to an object, and\n- userset tuple is not assigned to the same object, and\n- Check request's user field is a userset that has the same type as the type bound public access tuple's user type\n\n\nFix\nUpgrade to v1.8.5. This upgrade is backwards compatible.","affected":[{"package":{"name":"github.com/openfga/openfga","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/openfga/openfga"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.8.5"}]}],"database_specific":{"last_known_affected_version_range":"<= 1.8.4","source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/02/GHSA-g4v5-6f5p-m38j/GHSA-g4v5-6f5p-m38j.json"}}],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/openfga/openfga/security/advisories/GHSA-g4v5-6f5p-m38j"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-25196"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/openfga/openfga/commit/0aee4f47e0c642de78831ceb27bb62b116f49588"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/openfga/openfga"}],"database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-285"],"github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2025-02-19T20:25:22Z","nvd_published_at":"2025-02-19T21:15:15Z","severity":"MODERATE"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H"}]}